The September number of AUSTRALIAN GORMET TRAVELLER contains an
article about David Campbell having a discussion over lunch with Leo
Schofield, a well known food critic and arts festival organiser in
Australia.  I have attached a scan of the piece.

Michael S
Canberra











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Afternoon All

Just wanted to let you know that David will be on Spicks & Specks this
coming Wednesday evening on ABC1 @ 8.30pm.

This episode will also be shown on Thursday ABC2 @ 8pm & Friday ABC1 @
1.30pm.

Cheers
Elizabeth

DEVILICIOUS AVAILABLE ON ITUNES NOW!! PLEASE DOWNLOAD IT AND SUPPORT ME!

I NEED ALL THE SUPPORT AND HELP I CAN GET THIS WEEK OF RELEASE

Hi Guys,

DEVILICIOUS Is finally available to DOWNLOAD on ITUNES NOW!!!

I need all the support I can get this week. I’m sooooo nervous!!

I know how busy you all are, and I’d be forever in your debt if you can take a second now to download the track from Itunes, it’s so cheap $1.69 CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO GO STRAIGHT THERE!!

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Sign into your itunes accounts and search for

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Please please, please tell your friends to, let’s make this track huge!!

You have until Thursday afternoon (2pm)to download it.

Thank-you in advance for taking the time to download the track

Love you all you guys are the best

Always Nikki

I was cleaning out some old papers today and found this profile/survey
thing that dates back to the pop career days. Thought it might
interest someone.

-Amanda


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Top 5 Records of All Time
1. Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys
2. Revolver by The Beatles
3. The Wild The Innocent and the E-Street Shuffle by Bruce Springsteen
4. Heart Breaker by Ryan Adams
5. OK Computer by Radiohead

Top 5 Movies of All Time
1. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
2. High Fidelity
3. When We Were Kings
4. Godfather I
5. Star Wars IV - New Hope

Favourite Piece of Clothing
Cowboy Boots

Favourite James Bond
Sean Connery

Best Magazine
Q

If Hollywood were to make a movie of your life, who would play you
John Cusack

What was your first job
Mitre10 Hardware, Adelaide

What annoys you in others
Lack of punctuality

What's your most annoying habit
Being obsessed about CDs

How many CDs do you own
Around 300

What car do you drive
Range Rover Freelander

Favourite Food
Thai

What's your star sign
Leo

How do you feel about Plastic Surgery
I'd never have it, but it's great for other people

Any styles of music you dislike
What a waste of time Gregorian Chants are!

Favourite month of the year
January

Country you'd most like to visit for a holiday
Italy

What other musician or artist would you most like to work with
Bruce Springsteen

Favourite TV show
Sopranos

Favourite Book
Harpo Speaks

Favourite Marx Bros Film
A Night at the Opera

Most irritating Celeb
The member of any Boy band

How do you feel about the English Royal Family
They should take more drugs :)

How much e-mail do you receive
Just the right amount - a handful, without any junk

Coolest building ever
Chysler Building, NYC

Most embarrasing moment on stage
Dislocating my knee in Shout

Most difficult song to sing
Happy Birthday - I hate that song!

Do you play any instruments
Average guitar and mediocre piano

Most unique Musical Instrument
Triangle

Most interesting American President
Ronald Regan - amazing how he had Alzheimer's and the Country let him
sleep through two presidential terms.

Most interesting foreign accent
Spanish & Scottish

It's easy to overlook DVDs with the emphasis on chart placings for CDs and
singles.  However, the GOOD LOVIN' DVD debuted 2 weeks back on the Australian
Aria DVD chart at #1.  It fell to #2 last week, The Priests being #1.  This week
Andre Rieux returns to #1 with his long running Andrew Rieu in Australia DVD. 
David has remained solidly at #2 and the DVD has gone platinum.

Great work, David.

Michael S
Canberra

----- Original Message -----

From: Manda

To: david-campbell@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 6:58 PM

Subject: Re: [David-C] Digest Number 1885

Jay Selberg wrote:
> I have been asked by some American listers how to get David's new DVD that is an All Region disk and plays on our DVD players. (I was told by an Englishman that ALL music DVDs are All Region, which I did not know! So, sorry if I am redundant.)

Well, that's not exactly true. I once gifted a friend a Robbie
Williams DVD that turned out to be for regions 2-6. grr!

But anyway, you also need to be mindful if your DVD player can handle
PAL formatted DVDs - which is different than regions but can trip you
up all the same. Computer DVD drives should have no problems with PAL,
though.

I confess I haven't been the best fan in recent years - I only just
got around to playing the first Swing CD earlier this week! But I
caught David on Pam Ann a few weeks ago (via the magic of the
internet) and he looked lovely. Clearly marriage suits him. :-)

Amanda

Jay Selberg wrote:
>  I have been asked by some American listers how to get David's new DVD that is
an All Region disk and plays on our DVD players.  (I was told by an Englishman
that ALL music DVDs are All Region, which I did not know!  So, sorry if I am
redundant.)

Well, that's not exactly true. I once gifted a friend a Robbie
Williams DVD that turned out to be for regions 2-6. grr!

But anyway, you also need to be mindful if your DVD player can handle
PAL formatted DVDs - which is different than regions but can trip you
up all the same. Computer DVD drives should have no problems with PAL,
though.


I confess I haven't been the best fan in recent years - I only just
got around to playing the first Swing CD earlier this week! But I
caught David on Pam Ann a few weeks ago (via the magic of the
internet) and he looked lovely. Clearly marriage suits him. :-)

Amanda

The following page from the "Australian Stage Online" web site has been sent to
you by Adam Wilson ( ozpanda@... ).

You can access it at the following URL:
http://www.australianstage.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2459\
&Itemid=99999999

http://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/adelaidecabaret/?view=CatalogMgr&ca
talog=220

I was fortunate to be able to see the new GOOD LOVIN' show twice in just over a
week, the premiere in Sydney and a smoother show in Canberra eight days later.

The show opens with a punch from the drum and bass heavy "1-2-3" and moves into
"Jackie Wilson Said", the increasingly pleasing "Baby, Now That I've Found You"
and the jazzy but amusingly cheesy "Yeh Yeh".  In Sydney Bob Downe (aka Mark
Trevorrow) joined David on stage at the State Theatre to add to the kitsch value
of this song.  They brought the house down.

The show then slows for a brilliant version of "You've Lost That Lovin'
Feelin'".  Back up singers Mahalia Barnes and Juanita Tippins sopport David
brilliantly in this song.  And the band is terrific.

The band deserves a word.  It's a different line-up from the Swing Sessions
team, though Joe Acaria (musical director, drums) stays.  Marty Hsiley,
apparently a Canberra boy, performs consistently impressively on lead guitar. 
Brass and woodwind are Steve Fitzmaurice, Msrk Taylor and another player not
billed.  Piano is Lindsay Page and, for the rockier work, Nik Pringadi who
otherwise is on electric keyboards.  Ben Cripps plays awesome bass.  Efforts
have been made to give the band more prominence this time around.  There is an
epic version of "Lazy River" in which a duel takes place between David and the
brass with the brass players moving around the stage in a stylised chase
routine.  It works really well.

"Lovin' Feelin'" was followed by "How Can I Be Sure" (with some fine flute). 
The pace picked up with a scorcher in "Keep On Running".

Then a delightful surprise when David sang "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" accompanied
only by Lindsay Page at the piano.  Introduced as a song they couldn't fit on
the CD, it seemed a loss that such a fine performance of so great a song missed
the cut.  However, it will be on the DVD released on 24 April and I guess
appears on the download of the Sydney show available on the bandit.fm website. 
This performance was reminiscent of David's job on "Cry" and "Save The Last
Dance For Me" on the SHOUT! cast recording.

There then followed the Swing Sessions segment made up of "Perhaps, Perhaps,
Perhaps", "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You", "Up A Lazy River" and the
singalong "Can't Take My Eyes Off You".  Revisiting this material was like
meeting old friends.  The different band did a great job with this material.

After an intermission the second half opened with David doing "Sing! (And Tell
the Blues So Long)" from SHOUT! accompanied only by himself on guitar.  The band
then joined David down stage seated in a semi-circle for a very pleasing soft
rock group of songs - like the jam session in the ELVIS 1968 COMEBACK SPECIAL or
any of a number of Chris Isaak performances.  The songs were "Runaround Sue"
(which well deserves a recording), "Good Lovin'" and "She's My Baby".

Back in full stage mode we then had "Mr Bojangles", "You've Made Me So Very
Happy" and "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody".  The rock tempo took over with
"Suspicious Minds" and a fantastic "Devil In A Blue Dress" (with great work from
Mahalia and Juanita), "What'd I Say?" and a "Shout!" encore.

The show is a worthy development from last year's Swing Sessions shows.  More
thought and work has gone into the look and staging of this show without the
loss of fun.  The audiences in both Sydney and Melbourne were demonstrative in
the extreme and, as with 2008, all age groups were well represented.

They say now in introducing David on television shows that he's the hardest
working performer in Australia and often he's introduced as "Mr Showbusiness". 
He certainly gives his all and the audience really appreciates it.  It's
salutary to think how far David has come since some of the lean times a decade
or so ago and in the few years after SHOUT!

This rundown has been delayed because I've been working hard in the last few
weeks with lots of weekends away from home.

Michael S
Canberra