GET COUNTDOWN SPECTACULAR 2 FOR CHRISTMAS!
We know you've been waiting for this one and if it's possible it's even more exciting than last year! That's right, it's time to polish up the platforms and pump out the hair gel for the release of COUNTDOWN SPECTACULAR 2 on DVD and CD - just in time for Christmas!
COUNTDOWN SPECTACULAR 2 features not only all our Australian favourites but a stack of International stars to perform the chart topping songs:
Jessie's Girl/Don't Talk to Strangers - Rick Springfield
Total Control/Only the Lonely - Martha Davis of The Motels
My Sharona - Doug Fieger Of The Knack
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina Leskanich formerly of Katrina & The Waves
Ca Plane Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand
Bye Bye Baby/R'nR Love Letter - Les McKeown formerly of The Bay City Rollers
Some Girls Do/Lay Your Love on Me - Richard Gower of Racey
January + Magic - David Paton of Pilot
Pop Muzik - Robin Scott alias 'M'
Touch Me - Samantha Fox
It's All Over Now Baby Blue - Graham Bonnet
And all the Australian Countdown favourites
BSG (founding members of Little River Band)
Richard Clapton
Kate Ceberano (I'm Talking)
Supernaut (reforming especially)
The Radiators
Sharon O'Neill
John Schumann of Redgum
Dave Mason of The Reels
Ignatius Jones of Jimmy & The Boys
Paul Gray of Wa Wa Nee
Doc Neeson's Angels
Plus Molly is back on board with John Paul Young who returned to the Countdown Spectacular to perform and co-host.
And of course Countdown would not be Countdown without the voice of Gavin Wood and the Countdown Dancers.
As Molly might say 'Do yourself - and your friends - a favour'... Countdown Spectacular 2 is on sale now.
Critics praise 2007 tour
The Australian, Monday August 20, 2007, review of the Countdown Spectacular 2 tour's first show in Newcastle
Pop and social conscience set to a righteous groove
The broad spectrum of pop held sway in Newcastle on Saturday night for the opening show of the Countdown Spectacular 2 national tour.
The house band has a righteous groove. Link people Molly Meldrum and John Paul Young diss each other with practised ease. There are invitations to clap hands and join in the choruses of silly love songs.
Countdown Spectacular 2 is a well-paced presentation of strong songs and faultless production.
(Edited comments of detailed song by song review by Anthony O'Grady, who edited RAM magazine during Countdown's heyday years on ABC-TV)
The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday August 21, 2007, review of the Countdown Spectacular 2 tour's first show in Newcastle
Ageing rockers show how to pack a punch!
There is an argument that Countdown Spectacular is everything you need in a pop music night out for those of us of a certain age.
And it plays both kinds of music: daggy and amusing, and daggy and awful. Though where each song sits on that (admittedly not particularly broad) spectrum for you is the crux of the matter.
Far more to this audience's taste were the punchy, beer-stained singalongs of the Radiators, Doc Neeson's Angels and the camp-meets-1978-school-disco-going-off of Richard Gower (Who? Racey. Lay Your Love on Me. And Some Girls Will. Yes, exactly)
Robin Scott, aka the one-hit-wonder M, surprisingly worked well by not taking it seriously whereas John Schumann's Only 19 surprisingly worked well by taking it very seriously.
... the night climaxed with Jessie's Girl. Good God, Rick Springfield is still ridiculously sexy, isn't he?
(Edited comments of detailed review by Bernard Zuel)
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