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One of These Nights
CC Entertainment
29 December 2009

 

Hell hasn’t frozen over but summer has heated up as CC Entertainment return for one night only on Saturday 13th February at the Lyric Theatre Star City celebrating the music of the Eagles with ‘One of These Nights.

 

Kevin Bennett (The Flood), Simon Meli (Ooh la la), Steve Balbi (Noiseworks) Robyn Loau & Louise Anton plus a special guest appearance by Jenny Morris and introducing Kristal Collins.

 

 Wit With “The Eagles – Their Greatest Hits 1971 – 1975” being one of the biggest selling albums of all time (42 million copies and counting) this show is sure to have very broad appeal.h “The Eagles – Their Greatest Hits 1971 – 1975” being one of the biggest selling albums of all time (42 million copies and counting) this show is sure to have very broad appeal.

 

The superb 9 piece band will be under the creative direction of Joseph Calderazzo.

 A perfect way to spend Valentines Day Eve with a soundtrack featuring “Hotel California”, “Desperado”, “Heartache Tonight”, “New Kid in Town”, “Life in The Fast Lane”, “Tequila Sunrise”, “Take It To The Limit” and many more.

Big screen visuals will be provided by Pixel Vision and there will be a Rock Photography exhibition by iconic Australian photographer Philip Morris in The Lyric foyer.

“the performers sheer love for the music is what makes these concerts so special” Christie Eliezer, themusic.com.au

“for fans old and new, a magic concert!” John Ferguson, Sydney Olympic Park Authority

 

Friday 12 February 2010
Laycock Theatre, Gosford
Laycock St North Gosford
** John Paul Young will not be appearing at the Gosford show

02 4323 3233
Box Office hours are
Mon - Fri - 10am - 5pm Sat - 9am - 12pm

 

Saturday 13 February 2010

Lyric Theatre - Star City Casino
80 Pyrmont St, Pyrmont NSW 2009

for single ticket sales phone 1300 795 267
for group bookings phone (02) 8512 9020


For dinner & show packages call 1300 4 SHOWS or visit www.showbiz.com.au

Groups of 10 or more call (02) 8512 9020 or email groups@nsw.ticketmaster.com.au

 

Thursday 18 February 2010

Canberra Theatre
Civic Square
London Cct
Canberra ACT 2608

Tickets $89.90 / $79.90 + bf/

For phone bookings (02) 6275 2700 during business hours
For online bookings click

**GROUP tickets are not available online. To make a group booking, please phone (02) 6275 2700 during business hours or email groups@canberratheatrecentre.com.au

***CONCESSIONS Concession tickets available to Full-time students and Pensioners. If purchasing concession priced tickets, proof of eligibility of concession must be presented to Canberra Ticketing staff upon collection of tickets or full price may be charged.


11th Annual Nordoff-Robbins Music Trvia Night
NRMT
12 March 2009

 

The 11th Annual Nordoff-Robbins Music and Entertainment Trivia Night will be held on Thursday 26 March 2009 at an exciting new venue - the Kirribilli Club.

This popular event has been a complete sell-out for the past few years so make sure you get in quick.

Quizmasters include Glenn A Baker, Mark Gable, Iva Davies, Jimmy Barnes, Jenny Morris, Melinda Schneider, Mark Lizotte and Peter Hebbes.

In 2008, 1st place went to APRA Research, 2nd place was JB Hi-Fi and 3rd place was Talk Force. The challenge is set - who will take home the title in 2009.


Jenny Morris - Lizotte's Restaurant
Lizotte's Restaurant
12 March 2009

 

Lizotte's Restaurant be held on Saturday 21 March 2009

Main Course Meal and Seminar - $89.50 pp (Main Meal & show Bar stool seating only - $79.50 pp)
Surely one of Australia's favourite artists - all the songs and and a great band, come and party with Jenny!


Jenny Morris & Christine Anu - Mundaring Weir Hotel
Gilly
1 February 2009

 

I am a talk back radio junkie I love ringing in an giving my opinion, I love quizzes and I love winning prizes. Recently I won tickets to see Jenny Morris & Christine Anu perform at the Mundaring Weir Hotel. I took my good mate Tamara and we toddled off under very black skies.

Just as we arrived at Mundaring the heavens opened and we all got soaked. But it was worth it because the music and atmosphere was great. The weather had kept a few people away so it turned out to be quite an intimate performance!

My personal fav was Jenny Morris - singing in her words "sleazy rock and roll". Christine was good too, but her set was cut short because the whole night had started late due to the down pour.


Australia Day Celebrations in Liverpool
Liverpool Leader
26 January 2009

 

Woodward Park, corner Hume Highway and Hoxton Park Road, Liverpool

Liverpool Mayor Wendy Waller invites you to join a FREE family evening of entertainment featuring a superb line-up of live music, dance, children's activities and a spectacular fireworks display. Featuring:

Jenny Morris – one of Australasia’s most beloved singer/songwriters performing all her hits

Joe Gatehau – former Australian Idol contestant and Liverpool local

VTribe – young and energetic group blending reggae and funk

Latin Oz Dance Mania – sizzling and sensual Latin dance with amazing acrobatics

GY Wiz Kidz – local dance group

Children’s entertainment – Humphrey, jumping castles, rides, clowns and face painting

Spectacular fireworks display

Free native tree give-away for all residents, plus much more.

Variety of food vendors available or bring a picnic.

Liverpool's Australia Day Ambassador for 2009 is Father Chris Riley. For more information visit www.youthoffthestreets.com.au

Whitlam Leisure Centre celebrations include half price pool entry before 12noon, novelty races, children’s activities and barbecue. For details contact Whitlam Leisure Centre on 9600 9333.

Public transport:
Catch the T-way to Brickmakers Creek.

Parking:
Parking available. Enter via Whitlam Leisure Centre on Memorial Avenue or 1 Hoxton Park Road. Gold coin donation for Liverpool Lions Club welcomed.

Proudly sponsored by Nine Network, Liverpool Leader and Liverpool City Champion.


Rockin’ the Black Dog for The Hunter Intsitute
Hunter Institute of Mental Health
22 November 2008

 

Rockin’ the Black Dog is a free music festival in Newcastle happening next month to raise awareness for mental health issues through The Hunter Institute of Mental Health.

Jenny Morris, The Boat People and a number of other acts will take the stage to entertain festival goers and educate people about mental illness.

Join in the free fun, have a great day out and get up to date info on health issues at Rockin’ the Black Dog, on December 6.


Spicks and Specks
ABC
28 July 2008

 

AUSTRALIA VS NEW ZEALAND

This week is a special one-off as the show brings cross-Tasman rivalry to the world of music. New Zealand is pitted against Australia in a battle to see who will walk away with the glory of winning Spicks and Speck.

Our special guests this week are singer/songwriter Pete Murray, comedian Meshel Laurie representing the Aussie and singer Jenny Morris and comedian Tony Martin battling it out for the Kiwis.

The episode’s closing performance features Adam Hills. Beware…it will have you singing along in your lounge room and throwing your hands in the air.

Myf's Team

Aussie singer/songwriter Pete Murray has had 3 albums that have reached number 1 on the Australian music charts and has been nominated several times for an ARIA.

His latest album, 'Summer At Eureka', was produced and recorded on his rural property in northern NSW. He built a recording studio in order to take time with the album and produce it to his own standard. This was the first time he produced his own album. His musical influences are artists such as Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.

The sky-rocketing success of comedian and television personality Meshel Laurie, began when she debuted The Whore Whisperer: Confessions of a Madam, a one-woman comic show about brothels based on her experience as a brothel receptionist (a completely sold out smash).

In 2007, she set the stage alight with her show ‘A Shadow of My Former Self’ at Melbourne’s International Comedy Festival, where she confronts herself about blatant untruths & bad makeup through the outdated magic of videotape. Meshel is an Australian comedian and radio-television personality. She was born in Ipswich, Queensland. She is currently a regular on Rove Live and co-hosts Brisbane’s Nova 106.9 breakfast show.

Alan's Team

Singer Jenny Morris was born in New Zealand but relocated to Australia and worked as a back up singer for bands such as The Models and INXS. She began her solo career by singing the title track for the 80s film Puberty Blues, which was a local box-office success.

In 2006, she released Clear Blue In Stormy Skies. It featured reworked hit songs of the '80s and '90s.

Comedian/writer Tony Martin was a writer and performer with The D-Generation in the 80’s. The group later moved on to the ABC comedy The Late Show. he then went on to co-host radio show, Martin/Molloy with Mick Molloy. Martin/Molloy produced three ARIA award winning compilation albums: The Brown Album, Poop Chute and Eat Your Peas.

He also made several appearances on Thank God You're Here, The Panel and in Kath & Kim. He has also played minor roles in several films including The Castle, Crackerjack and BoyTown.


Glenn Shorrock and Friends Jamm 4 Genes
Hotsource
4 August 2007

 

Glenn Shorrock and Friends Jamm 4 Genes will be a night of history-making performances. Glenn kicks off the star studded rock show and will share the stage with ARIA Hall of Fame Inductee, Brian Cadd. Jenny Morris and her band will take the stage for the second set. John Swan will rock the house down in the third set with his own classic hits and a host of special guests, including R&B sensation and Jamm 4 Genes spokesperson, Jade MacRae and Choirboys frontman, Mark Gable. Surprise performances are in store the stunning finale – it will be a night to remember.

Headline Act:
Glenn Shorrock
Other Performances by:
Brian Cadd, Jenny Morris, John Swan, Mark Gable, Jade Macrae

Doors Open: 6:30 PM
Music Starts: 7:15 PM


Iemma's rock face
Yuko Narushima
20 July 2007

 

Before Morris Iemma became bogged down on matters of water and transport, he was a long-haired, music-lovin' rocker. Or so he tried to convince reporters assembled at the launch of a music industry expo that he had advertised on Facebook.

"If you've got a 12-string Rickenbacker, I'll make it chime brilliant like a million dollars," he told reporters at a record studio in Alexandria.

He recalled his youth when he would "engage in a Friday night blues crawl" starting at the Cat and Fiddle Hotel in Balmain.

The Premier said he liked Midnight Oil's songs Blue Sky Mine and Beds are Burning, Hit and Run by Jo Jo Zep and Beggar on the Street of Love by Jenny Morris, but became shy when he was asked to sing.

"No, the last time I tried to give you a line was the second verse of our national anthem," he said. "I have an appalling voice."

Mr Iemma said the NSW Government will spend $500,000 over three years on an annual three-day conference called the Song Summit Sydney. The money would go to the Australian Performing Rights Association (APRA), on which Jenny Morris is a board member.

"Morris is attending a press conference with singer Jenny Morris, and is hoping for 'a break in the weather'," the Premier said at one point this morning on his Facebook profile under "status".

Song Summit Sydney is a conference for Australian singers, songwriters and music retailers to network. The first summit, scheduled for April 3 to 5, 2008, will be modelled on a similar meeting in the US and is expected to attract 800 industry professionals.

The summit is aimed at nurturing the music industry, which Ms Morris said was worth $7 billion.

"Australian music has achieved a critical mass which that is winning the acclaim of music lovers here and abroad," Ms Morris said.

She said the international rise of Missy Higgins, John Butler, Ben Lee, Jet, Wolfmother, the Sick Puppies and the Wiggles, were a testimony to this.

And while Mr Iemma crowned Sydney "the home of the Australian music industry", the lead singer of Thirsty Merc, Rai Thistlethwaite, contradicted him just minutes later.

He called Melbourne "the musical capital of Australia" and lamented decline in live gigs in that city.

Music has a huge effect on society and musicians don't realise how influencial they can be, Thistlethwaite said.

"Young people may not listen to parents or teachers," he said. "But they will listen to bands and what they've got to say."

According to the State Government, Australians spend $2.8 billion each year on music and 110,000 people in NSW are employed in creative industries.

Song Summit Sydney
http://www.songsummit.com.au/


Jenny Morris - Clear Blue In Stormy Skies
Liberation Music
24 June 2006

 

"I think this is the best album I've ever done. It's definitely the best singing I've ever done. And I know why: cause it was done on a small budget. When you've got binding restrictions you get creative, and you also keep to first takes a lot more, which are very often the best ones."

Clear Blue In Stormy Skies is a watershed album for Jenny Morris. Between a dozen remodelled radio hits of the '80s and '90s is an overdue reaffirmation of her rare gifts as a singer and songwriter. More importantly, in the act of reinvention are the seeds of a revitalised future.

It was a spontaneous, gospel piano version of Paul Kelly's Beggar On the Street of Love, she says, that became the benchmark for an inspired flight of musical imagination. "After that I was really keen to make new songs out of everything. It was incredible how it happened. They all worked like a dream."

Surprises include the Keith Richards raunch of You're Gonna Get Hurt, a cosmic soul version of Body & Soul and an ingeniously skewed retake of You I Know, kindly rewritten by its author, Neil Finn, in Auckland late last year - that's him on guitars and backing vocals too.

The rest of the album was made fast and loose in February '06 with Jenny's long term road partners: Steve Balbi (Noiseworks, Electric Hippies) produced and played guitars; Paul Searles (Skunkhour) played a range of vintage keyboards including piano, Hammond, Wurlitzer and Rhodes. Backing singer Josh Quong Tart completed a small, close-knit ensemble.

Jenny's especially warm and intimate vocals were caught with a vintage valve microphone once used by Frank Sinatra. "We also used a lot of this old spring reverb," she says. "It crapped out a lot and it was very frustrating, but man, when it worked it was amazing and I think that's why this album has got that special earthiness about it."

This combination of sonic classicism and fresh discovery reignites Jenny's first hit of '84, Everywhere I Go, as well as her biggest subsequent singles, Break In The Weather and She Has To Be Loved. There's an instrumental arrangement of her most requested song, Little Little, and a languid INXS cover, This Time, in tribute to her friend Michael Hutchence.

The title, Clear Blue In Stormy Skies, comes from the sole new track, The Time. It's a song with the kind of mature and reflective tone, emotional integrity and musical excellence that only comes with years of experience.

"That's why this Liberation series is so good, cause it's actually commending people who have put work and time into their craft," Jenny says. "All these songs were a dream to sing. They fell together like a jigsaw puzzle. We just let ourselves go wherever they led us."


Joints will be jammin' on August 4 with the best sounds in Australian music
SMH
25 May 2006

 

Since the launch of the Jamm 4 Genes campaign and website earlier this month, the response from music venues, promoters, musicians and artist management has been united enthusiasm.

From chart-topping Australian Idol star Lee Harding to evocative singer/songwriter Nick Barker; from the perennially popular Unity Hall Jazz Band to country music favourites Beccy Cole, Col Finley and Luke O'Shea; with iconic bands such as Dragon and Choirboys and classic solo artists including Jenny Morris and Diesel; the best of Australia's music talent are lining up to play their part in Jamm 4 Genes on August 4.


Women in Voice 14 in Brisbane
Kellie Riordan
15 March 2005

 

Venue: The Playhouse, QPAC - Thursday 10 March, 2005

The Women in Voice concept was born 12 years ago in a West End cafe. It is a simple but immensely successful idea; a group of talented, dynamic female singers perform a repertoire of songs they love. It is a celebration of music and love, femininity and camaraderie.

This season features Barbara Fordham, Alison St Ledger, Kate Miller-Heidke, Jenny Morris, Queenie Van Zandt and Zulya Kamalova, and it is a show with all the vigour and enthusiasm of the previous 13. The concert is more than a musical feast; it is a theatrical experience thanks to the cabaret feel of the lighting and sets.

The formidable Barbara Fordham opened the show with a series of songs relating to pregnancy and motherhood. Barbara is an old hand, having performed in four Women in Voice concerts, and at times that meant her presence bordered on routine. That said though, her diction and technique are almost faultless.

Queenie Van Zandt is a great comedic actress and delighted with her impersonation of a musical therapist complete with cliched mantras and affirmations. It is here the format of Women in Voice excels; the women are able to experiment and are encouraged to shake-up tired formulas.

Zulya Kamalova was stunning. The part-Russian beauty took the audience on a trip through world music, from the Parisian cabaret scene to the folk songs of Eastern Europe. Her blend of western and eastern music styles was evident in a diverse repertoire of songs.

The evening's highlight came via a 23-year-old singer named Kate Miller-Heidke. She writes her own edgy pop songs that owe a lot to Kate Bush and Tori Amos. But Kate is also an award-winning classical singer who performs with the Queensland Orchestra and the Queensland Opera.

Kate commanded attention with her dead-pan operatic version of the Talking Heads song Psycho Killer. Next up an hysterical pop ditty about an annoying boyfriend, followed by a hanuting Nick Cave song, and a tune poking fun at Australian Idol. Kate is energetic, exciting and enthralling.

Alison St Ledger has one of the best rock voices in the business, having worked with Powderfinger many times. She showcased the Mersey Sound and relayed her love of The Beatles through a story about her grandmother. Her scat singing on Hey Jude was spell-binding. Alison never overstates anything, so when she lets rip you really go on the journey with her.

Pop star Jenny Morris was perhaps the disappointment of the evening. Jenny offered straight-up versions of her hits like She Has To Be Loved but never stretched beyond her capabilities. The format of Women in Voice encourages the singers to experiment, but Jenny merely recycled previous performances.

Women in Voice 14 also showcases these singers together in harmony. An exceptional backing band, and the divine Kate Miller-Heidke, make this a show well worth seeing.

Friday 12 February 2010
Laycock Theatre, Gosford
Laycock St North Gosford
** John Paul Young will not be appearing at the Gosford show

 


Get set for Australia Day - See Jenny Morris Trio
Liverpool Leader
12 January 2005

 

Belmore Sports Ground is set to rock for Australia Day 2005, with our FREE non-stop celebrations on Wednesday, 26 January from 10 am to 2pm.

We have a fantastic entertainment line-up, led by the Jenny Morris trio, and featuring popular group Martinez with ABC TVs Captain Feathersword and Kristina.

There’ll be street theatre, Kush Cabaret (performers on stilts) and plenty of stalls filled with food, displays, information and merchandise.

Of course, were having a great big Aussie barbecue, and, the kids will have a ball with plenty of rides including the giant slide and jumping castle and special Australia Day tattoos.

Parking at Australia Day will be in the playing field adjacent to Belmore Sports Ground. Entry is via Thorncraft Parade.

Holiday Fun @ Your Library - Activities for children

If your kids are looking for fun things to do, Campsie Library has plenty of great activities on offer over the holidays. They include:

Wednesday 12 Jan, 11am - Murphys Puppets All ages
Tuesday 18 Jan, 2pm -Movie Mania Ages 5-12
Monday 24 Jan, 2pm - Pasta Pictures Ages 5-12


Jenny Morris & Band
Max
16 April 2004

 

Thursday 28th April 2005

Venue: Newtown, 52 Enmore Rd., Newtown

'Alive' is the amazing new live DVD/CD from Jenny Morris. This DVD is the culmination of 20 years of music from one of Australia's most beloved singer/songwriters. It is the first time that a live performance of Jenny Morris has ever been released, and the showcase takes place inside the walls of the stylish club, @Newtown. Not to be missed!


AGSC Screen Music Awards presenters announced
David Michod
27 October 2003

 

APRA and AGSC are pleased to announce the presenters at the 2003 Screen Music Awards to be held on Monday 3 November at The Hordern Pavilion at Fox Studios Australia.

* Malcolm Long (Director of AFTRS)
* Bill Bennett (Feature Film Director and Script Writer of Kiss or Kill, In a Savage Land, The Nugget and Spider and Rose)
* Jenny Morris (Singer/Songwriter of albums Shiver and Salvation Jane)
* Marcus Graham (Actor in The Blue Room and Mulholland Dr.)
* George Miller (Feature Film Director of Mad Max and Lorenzo’s Oil)
* John Howard (Actor in Always Greener, Seachange and Japanese Story)
* Rachel Ward (Actor in On the Beach and Film Director of The Big House and Martha’s New Coat)
* David Hirschfelder (Film Composer of Shine, Better Than Sex, Elizabeth, Hanging Up, and Sliding Doors)
* Nigel Westlake (Film Composer of Babe, Babe: Pig in the City and The Nugget)
* Monica Trapaga (Singer/Songwriter with Monica Trapaga’s Brazilian Spectacular and Actor in Somewhere in the Darkness)

Awards will be presented to winners in the categories of music composed for feature films, telemovies and mini-series, children’s television, advertisements, short films and documentaries.

The APRA — AGSC Awards will be hosted by the consummate wordsmith and comedian Jean Kitson.

“We are thrilled to have such stellar line up presenters at this year’s awards. It is a tribute to these composers, directors and actors that they have given of their time to honour recipients of these awards. We look forward to the very talented Jean Kitson running a wonderful night,” said Brett Cottle, APRA Chief Executive.

The 2003 APRA — AGSC Screen Music Awards
Monday 3 November, The Hordern Pavilion, Fox Studios Australia.


INXS Special
Max
22 August 2003

 

Music Max had a special on INXS which had some clips with Jenny Morris performing with the band. Last week I did see lot clips on Jenny Moris.


Hit & Myth Tour
Tony Senatore
8 August 2003

 

I attended Jenny Morris concert at Canberra Southern Cross Club on 7 August. She really enjoyed herself. BMW theme song is BODY AND SOUL, I seem that ad on TV about six times so far.

Jenny Morris reply to the audiences was "get off your bum" and followed by "I want to see you dance". She gave free dance lessons. After she said that, I got up and started to dance, she pointed her finger straight at me and stated "his got it", told me to go on the dance floor.

Jenny Morris got off the stage and got more people to dance and to enjoy themselves, this guy was saying "sexy Jenny .. sexy Jenny .. sexy Jenny".

After the show was finish. It was followed by autography her latest CD. She ask for my name, my reply was Tony Senatore, I told her I had a website on you, her reply was "that Tony" .. "I am happy to finally met you". Boy did her eyes lip up. Jenny gave me her hand and we had shake.

I had deep look into her face, what attract me was her new hair style it really suits her, that  got my attention. She looked more less like the photo on main entry on my site. She gave me wave, which I gave her a gave wave back in turn.

I would also like thank Jenny for her lovely comments on the CD, it really touch me and I was moved.

She perform 9 tracks from HIT & MYTH, 4 tracks from SHIVER, 2 tracks from BODY & SOUL, 1 track from SALVATION JANE, and 2 new songs.


Hit & Myth
4 April 2003  

 

Two of Australian's leading actors are set to appear in a music video clip for Jenny Morris's new single DOWNTIME, after a glamorous shoot in Sydney last week. Hugo Weaving and Bryan Brown agreed to mime the lyrics to Morris's new song, alongside a host of actors including Matt Newton and Peter Fenton.

It helps to have friends in high places, and Morris is a good friend all the performers.

Weaving found a gap in his schedule for the shoot, in between filming for The Matrix and The Lord Of The Rings sequels, and Bryan Brown happily agreed for a cameo role. Both men performed for free.

"It's very exciting to have stars of this calibre in the clip," Morris said.

Morris was crowned Australian's best female artist at the ARIA awards in the 1980s but DOWNTIME is her first release in six years mainly due to motherhood.

Morris spends much of the video clip crooning inside a funky nightclub setting, but neither Weaving or Brown were keen to show of their dancing skills.

Instead the men spent an afternoon inside the stylish Civic Hotel in Pitt Street, pretending to be nightclub patons, and miming the words to Morris new song.

"Jenny and I have kids at the same school, and we starting talking about the video during a school trivia night," Weaving said.

"She forced a lot of red wine down my throat and put on the hard words."

Weaving, who commands some of the highest rates of any Australian actor his role in The Matrix and The Lord Of The Rings, was happy to do a favour for his long-time friend.

But the actor was jokingly concerned about his role in the nightclub scenes: "I'm playing a pervert sitting on my own in corner. Why does Bryan Brown always get the girls?"

Morris's new album HIT & MYTH is due out in August.

PUMP UP THE VOLUME: Apart from his video clips, Hugo Weaving heads back to New Zealand this week, to shoot scenes for second film the Lord of Rings trilogy. He expects to spends weeks with director Peter Jackson.


The mother of all Archies packs a punch
Miranda Korzy Sydney
14 March 2003

 

A lifelike portrait of actor and writer Rachel Ward has won Sydney artist Jan Williamson the Archibald packers' prize for the second consecutive year.

Williamson, a full-time painter and mother of nine, took out the packing room prize last year with her painting of singer-songwriter Jenny Morris.

The prize appears to reflect popular tastes, having coincided with the People's Choice award last year and in 2001, for Paul Newton with his portrait Roy Slaven and HG Nelson.

This year's winning painting, on a green background, shows Ward seated and looking straight at the viewer, dressed in a pink silk jacket with cuffs rolled up and loose white trousers, on a canvas 0.5 by 1.2 metres.

Williamson, from Waitara, in Sydney's north, said she was ecstatic about winning two years in a row.

She does not expect to win the main prize, a feat never achieved by a packers' prize winner, because "I think I'm too traditional".

"I was hoping to get it hung in the Archibald, that's the main aim, not so much the winning anything," she said.

Ward had been on the artist's long list of people she wanted to paint, along with Ward's husband, Bryan Brown.

"I just thought she'd be great to paint," Williamson said. "She's a lovely lady, a wife and a mum. She juggles her career and her family, which I admire. A lot of women are doing that, including myself, and she's just a very natural lovely lady."

Ward said she thought the portrait was excellent and she loved the colours.

"A few of the wrinkles have been removed - I'm glad to see that," Ward said.

"Jan rang me rather at the last minute and said do you want to do this, and I saw Jenny's portrait last year and I thought it was terrific."

The gong, worth $500, is made by Art Gallery of NSW workers who receive, unpack and hang all the entries.

First awarded in 1991, the packing room prize is adjudicated by the gallery storeman, Steve Peters.

Mr Peters said the painting was an easy choice for the eight packers.

"A lot of people would know who Rachel Ward is," Mr Peters said. "And you see the picture and easily identify that it's Rachel Ward... We ummed and ahhed for about 30 seconds."

The gallery's director, Edmund Capon, said the prize was awarded by "the true connoisseurs and scholars - not the trustees, the packers".

Mr Capon said 572 entries had been made for the Archibald this year and 32 works hung.

The winners of the Archibald, Sulman and Wynne prizes will be announced on March 21.

The exhibition opens to the public the following day, running until May 25


Festival attracts folk of all ages
Jaclyn Densley
10 March 2003

 

Port Fairy's 27th annual Folk Festival had just about everything: even the kitchen sink made an appearance.

The sink joined the line-up in the Folk Circus marquee as part of Mic Conway's National Junk Band performance.

The music from nose flutes, vacuum cleaner hoses and oversized instruments even had toddlers dancing in the aisles.

Not all the acts were as unusual. Archie Roach, John Williamson, Renee Geyer, Jenny Morris and emerging Australian band the Waifs were among the popular performers.

Roach and Morris played in the venue's largest marquee, stage three. The tent, capable of holding 3500 people, was stretched to the seams as the headliners stepped up.

Festival director Jamie McKew said 10,500 adult tickets were sold for the four-day festival. Close to 2000 teenagers and thousands more children came through the gates.

"It's been sensational. Feedback from artists and audience members had been fantastic. We had enormous luck with the weather - it's probably better being cool and breezy than hot," Mr McKew said.

"The new stage was magnificent and it was good to see lots of . . . young people exploring the different types of music. The crowd's starting to appreciate it more and more. Every festival is a bit different and that's the best thing about it."

The festival finishes today.


Hit & Myth
Simon Sweetman
14 February 2003

 

The title to this new album is a nice pun on Jenny Morris' career to date. And I'm sure if she's being honest, she'll accept that as I read the title aloud I though of it as if having a lithp (um, I mean lisp).

It's nice to know that Morris is still singing, and writing. In fact she's written or co-written the bulk of this new material.

Neil Finn carries on his favour of giving her a great track (the time it's Guiding Star, with its "I see a lantern, in the distance / Lights the pathway of least resistance" couplet, just to let you know that it is definitely a Neil Finn lyric).

So, Jenny's back. And it's fine. I just hope for her shake, someone out there still cares.  

(Yep Records / Universal)


National Weekend of Action against a War on Iraq
Nerissa Bradley

30 December 2002

 

Tens of thousands of people across the county joined marches and rallies against Australian involvement in an attack on Iraq. Protests happened in every capital city and some regional towns.

On Saturday, in Sydney, over 25,000 joined the Walk against the War from Town Hall Square to the Domain. Actors Judy Davis and John Howard joined famous journalist John Pilger in condemning the drive to war.

"What has Iraq done to Australia apart from buying a great deal of our wheat ?" Howard asked. "What is our fight with the Iraqi people? What is our fight with Iraqi children? We are partly responsible for the deaths of half a million Iraqi children because we are part of the blockade of that country that is denying them medicines and equipment."

Davis told the crowd war was the ultimate failure in communication, but the West has long believed it had the edge on civility. She said the majority of Australians remained unconvinced by the Howard government and did not want their country responsible for any further misery and death in Iraq. "I don't believe the current fear-mongering campaign run by the government and the media will succeed," Davis said. "I believe the majority of Australians are indeed peaceful, tolerant people, that the stigmatising of Islamic Australians appalls us, that John Howard's vision of the future is utterly alien to our beliefs."

Australians were being told a war would be against the Iraqi regime and not the Iraqi people.

Davis challenged the Prime Minister to revise his views on refugees and justify his government's treatment of Iraqi asylum seekers. "Is it possible they're still being told to go home - have we fallen into such a moral abyss?" she said.

The Labor Party also came in for some flak, Davis calling on politicians within its ranks to be courageous, show moral courage and to stop wasting their energy second-guessing the public and relying on opinion polls. Davis said the problem with Australia's politicians was that they believed Australia no longer had the freedom to act independently. They believed Australia's economic survival depended on "a full commitment to the American world vision", Davis said. "But we will not slide into the moral abyss, with blood on our hands," she said. "Mr Howard, you haven't presented us with a single compelling reason for the further slaughter of innocent people. "We do not support your war in Iraq."

Author and filmmaker John Pilger said that the Australian Government is "extremist" in its pro-US stance on Iraq. Mr Pilger told the crowd their stance marked them as moderates. But he said the Government's enforcement of sanctions against Iraq and its willingness to join a war against Baghdad make them extremists. "They have to be extreme to attack, unprovoked, a country that offers no threat to Australia, with whom Australia trades," he said. "A whole people held hostage to a medieval embargo, as well as to their own dictator."

The rally was also addressed by Australian Council of Trade Unions leader Sharan Burrow, the Auxillary Catholic Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn, Pat Power, Sheikh Taj Aldin Al Hilali, Rawan Abdul Nabi, Dr. Susan Wareham of MAPW, and performer Jenny Morris.

No war contingents traveled from Newcastle and Wollongong to join the march.

In Hobart despite a rainy day over 400 joined the Rally at Franklin Square and marched In Tasmania, more than 400 people demonstrated their opposition to a US-led attack on Iraq, the fourth demonstration of its kind in the past three months. Australian Greens Senator Bob Brown addressed the crowd, calling on world leaders to remember the lessons learnt during World War II and strive for peace. "How much better if instead of war they remembered back that half century and brought in a Marshall Plan, not for reconstructing Europe but reconstructing our planet to bring fairness, education, opportunity, food, shelter to the dispossessed millions of people who are our brothers and sisters on this planet," he said.

In Adelaide almost two thousand joined a march. The protest was twice the size of a rally held earlier this month and included grandparents, children and families. Professor Ian Maddocks, founder of Medical Association for Prevention of the War, said he was frightened about the health consequences of a military attack, in light of what happened during the 1991 Gulf War.

"From the point of view of the Americans, in particular, there were relatively few casualties and everything went very nicely indeed," he said. "But as far as the Iraq people were concerned, there were over 100,000 military casualties and there were almost as many civilian casualties immediately after that war. "It's very important we try to get before our leaders the realities of this war."

Canberra saw over 600 people join the noon rally at the US Embassy and marched to the Prime Ministers residence at the Lodge. Local organiser and spokesman for ACT Network Opposing War, Dr Rick Kuhn, told the crowd not to expect war until January because United States President George W. Bush would hate to jeopardise the Christmas shopping profits. He said it was impossible to justify the death and bloodshed that would be triggered by the invasion of Iraq. The war would be funded by ordinary Australians and Americans through increased taxes or cuts to social services. It was also creating an atmosphere of fear and paranoia and turning Australia into a police state.

"This Government is trying to create a paranoid atmosphere in Australia . . . terrorism is being used as a basis for dividing us up, making us distrustful and depriving us of our civil liberties," Dr Kuhn said. Other speakers included federal Labor backbencher Harry Quick, ACT Greens MLA Kerrie Tucker, and leaders of indigenous, religious and union groups.

Ms Tucker said of the 21 countries the US had bombed since World War II, none had achieved a stable, democratic government or a situation where human rights were now observed. There was no evidence to suggest bombing a country achieved what the Howard or Bush Administrations claimed to be striving for. She suggested Australia adopt the European Union's response, which involved prevention of conflict through peaceful means.

In Launceston many people joined the annual Christmas Parade wearing white armbands as part of a peace float with anti-war slogans. In country centre, almost two hundred Alice Springs residence held at protest, Later in the day a candlelight vigil was held gates of US Pine Gap spy base. Rallies were also held in Ipswich, Taree, and Lismore.

On Sunday, the streets of the centre of Melbourne came to a stand still as 15,000 people joined a march from the State Library to the Treasury Gardens. Federal Labor MP Harry Quick said US leaders were hypocrites and war would mean the death of thousands of innocent Iraqis.

"Why should we follow blindly the US, a nation that has torn up more international treaties and disregarded more UN conventions than the rest of the world has done in the past 20 years?"

Greens Senator Kerry Nettle said that if the US was serious about bring change it would back the equivalent of an anti-apratheid movment for democracy rather than bombing Baghad, democracy to Iraq. Spokeswoman Michelle O'Neil accused the US of wanting the war to try to control the Middle East and its oil. "This is about people who have a right to a safe life, about people who have a right to a country that is not invaded when they have not taken action against the US," she said.

The rally was also addressed by Randa Abdel Fatah, lawyer and Palestian activist, Bilal Clelland, Islamic Council, Jacob Grech, Leigh Hubbard, Victorian trades Hall Council, Secretary, Vanessa Hearman, Socialist Alliance, and entertained by the Bloody Marys and Peter Coombe.

Hundreds joined the Brisbane Candlelight Gathering at King George Square.

Democrats Leader Senator John Cherry told the crowd, "The government has failed despite all the rhetoric and all the visits to Washington - failed to win over the public, and I think public attitudes are hardening against war in Iraq. Not just in Australia, but in the United States and Europe as well," he said.

Over 200 joined the Darwin march to the Rapid Creek Market. A peace picnic was held in Perth and a rally and march is planned for Dec 8 at 12 noon, Stirling Gardens.

Contact Details
Name: Victorian Peace Network
WWW: http://www.vicpeace.org


Marrickville Council Endorses Anti-War Rally
Hannah Middleton

20 November 2002

 

"We are delighted that Marrickville Council has endorsed the November 30 Walk Against the War," said Dr Hannah Middleton, spokesperson for the Walk Against the War Coalition.

On Tuesday Council endorsed the Walk and directed its staff to widely publicise the event. A banner will also be displayed on the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre.

"We expect that a number of other Sydney local councils will take similar decisions," Dr Middleton said. "Opposition to a war on Iraq and to Australian involvement in it, and support for the Walk is huge and is growing all the time."

Local residents who oppose the war against Iraq have decided to meet at the Neighbourhood Centre at 10.30 am on 30 November. They will then walk into Sydney Town Hall Square where the peace rally is gathering at 12 noon.

The Walk Against the War is part of a national weekend of action against the war on Iraq in which rallies are planned for cities and towns across Australia, Dr Middleton said.

The Walk will end in the Domain with speeches by Bishop Power, Sheikh Al-hilali, John Pilger, Iraqi Migrants Council President Kassim Abood, Medical Association for the Prevention of War President Dr Sue Wareham, ACTU President Sharan Burrow, and Rawan Abdul Nabi from the Palestinian community.

There will be performances by John Howard, Jenny Morris, Peter Combe, CNNNN (The Chaser), Leonardo's Bride and the Café at the Gates of Salvation.

Contact Details
Name: Palm Sunday Committee
WWW: http://www.palmsunday.socialchange.net.au


Hit and Myth by Jenny Morris
Phil Cullen
15 October 2002

 

I think the expression “ear candy” has been misappropriated by the sinfully bleak in their argument on pop and its legitimate expression. Fair go there are many musical challenges to humanity, which have been consigned to the genre. Klatuu and the Carpenters come to mind, lately I’ve lost track, although Kenny G. is still out there and the Corrs go close.

There have also been adventures in ear candy which exploit the art in the positive. Dusty Trails most recent CD is the most obvious (French style movie music and Brian Wilson influenced surfing instrumentals) and Henri Salvador’s honest and sentimental work ‘Room with A View’ with Parisian café ballads. Brian Eno sweetened the ears one way. Third Force too. OMD on pop tunes and Ena with a Celtic view.

The best of the stuff has a touch of the James Bond theme about it - sound tracks for flight over islands in the sun, Styvesant ads from the sixties, danger and daring do, always cavalier. So, when Jenny Morris says she has always wanted to sing a James Bond theme and creates one for her new CD ‘Hit & Myth’ it is beholden on us to be shaken but perhaps, not stirred.


Jenny Morris follow singles
Undercover Music Records
24 August 2002

 

You had a taste of Jenny Morris HOME and DOWNTIME singles. 

I think the follow up will be I CLIMB HIGH, INTO THE WATER, IT'S HAPPEN AGAIN and WAVING WALL. 

I remember Jenny Morris Unplugged Tour, that WAVING WALL was an up tempo version and was very catchy tune. 


Jenny Morris a Comeback
James O'Brien
7 August 2002

 

Jenny Morris is one of Australia's most loved female pop singers. Though, of course, like many of Australia's "favourites", she is from New Zealand.

In this interview with James O'Brien she talks about growing up in New Zealand, one of seven children in a family where all of the children were encouraged to experiment and be themselves. "A very middle of the road family", she concedes, "But we always had an appreciation of the arts and music, and we had very spirited political discussions around the dinner table".

She says she began to write songs at about the age of 12, when she was strongly influenced English folk music of the time. "That sense of melody", she says, "has really influenced my songwriting... even now", meaning she writes all of her songs on guitar.

She says it was, inevitable, however, that to follow her musical career, she would need to move to Australia. "We just felt that New Zealand was a little bit small. You can get the stimulation, but you can't get the exposure".

Nonetheless, she says her Kiwi identity remains important. "It's not just something you wash off in the shower".

In this interview, she explains why she felt now was the "right time" to record again. Being a "pop star", she says, isn't important. "I never sought the big pop star thing out".


New single Downtime
Tony Senatore
4 July 2002

 

Jenny Morris new single 'Downtime' was released on 1 July 2002 from her new album Hit & Myth.


Melbourne makes it a hat trick for Archibald favourite
Thearts Centre
30 May 2002

 

Jan Williamson's portrait Jenny Morris - singer/songwriter, 2002 has been selected as the Melbourne's People's Choice Award winner from The 2002 Archibald Prize exhibition. The announcement was made today by Tim Jacobs, Chief Executive of the Arts Centre .

Williamson's work received more than 1300 votes, from more than 8500 cast by visitors to the exhibition. This is the third time Willamson's portrait of Jenny Morris has been voted the most popular after having been awarded Sydney's People's Choice Award and the Packing Room Prize during The Archibald Prize exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2002.

This year's People's Choice tally was very close. Also in the running was Esther Erlich's portrait of Deborah Conway receiving 1,175 Melburnian votes and Lynda Syddick Napaltjarri, 2002 by Robert Hannaford with 1,140 votes.

Jan Williamson is ecstatic her painting has been chosen by the people of Melbourne, "I'm over the moon" she said, "When you enter the Archibald Pirze you never even know if your work will be hung. When they told me I had won the Packing Room Prize that was even more exciting and to have received People's Choice in Sydney and Melbourne, I'm thrilled to bits! It's just great that people like the portrait so much, it gives you a real buzz!".

Williamson decided to paint Jenny Morris because she admires the singer/songwriter's talents. "I painted Jenny because she is a very, very talented young lady", says Jan Williamson. "The portrait was a pleasure to do".

Melbourne resident Christine Polowyj was selected as the winning entrant from the general public. Her name was randomly chosen from the 1338 votes cast for the Jan Williamson portrait. Both winning artist and winning entrant receives $2500.

The People's Choice is an annual event, which enables visitors to The Archibald Prize exhibition to vote for their favourite portrait from those on display. The 2002 Archibald Prize exhibition features portraits of well-known Australians including Deborah Conway, Mark Brandon Read, Anthony Mundine, Jenny Morris, Charles Blackman and Jeffrey Smart.

Sir Ninian Stephen, Chairman of Colonial Foundation, the principal financial supporter of the exhibition, said he was delighted that some 80,000 people had visited the Archibald Exhibition at the Arts Centre and he congratulated Jan Williamson on her triple win of the Packing Room Prize in Sydney and the Peoples' Choice prizes in Sydney and Melbourne.

The Archibald Prize is Australia's oldest and most prestigious art award. This popular exhibition will be on display at the Arts Centre until Sunday 2 February. Entry is free.

Arts Centre and the Art Gallery of New South Wales present
The Archibald Prize
Until 2 February 2003
The George Adams Gallery, Arts Centre
Free Admission / Open daily
For more information visit www.theartscentre.net.au
Principal Financial Supporter - Colonial Foundation Charitable Trust


Others sent packing as Morris gets the nod
Sharon Verghis
30 May 2002

 

In a raucous field of dodgy ex-detectives and naked art critics, a comparatively conventional subject, singer Jenny Morris, features in the painting yesterday chosen as this year's winner of the Archibald Packing Room prize.

The painter, mother of nine Jan Williamson, might also be described as outside the norm in art circles.

Flanked by her portrait of Morris, Williamson was humble in victory, revealing that "every time I thought I'd do an art course, I'd have a child instead''. 

Indeed, Art Gallery of New South Wales director Edmund Capon remarked yesterday that in Australia it seems everyone wants to be a painter.

With a record tally of almost 3000 entries this year for the Archibald, Wynne, Sulman and Dobell prizes, Mr Capon may be right on the money. 

Head storeman Steve Peters, the prize's chief powerbroker with a controlling 51 per cent of the vote, said the Morris portrait got the workers' nod because of its realism.

So what chance would an abstract work have? "Absolutely Buckley's,'' said the storeman and judge, the subject of a passably life-like portrait by Dave Machen, which was chosen as an alternative winner following some "dissension'' in the voting bloc. 

For Morris, there was something surreal in the experience of featuring as a subject in Williamson's almost life-size portrait, which also made it into the list of 31 finalists for the Archibald Prize. The duo met through a mutual friend, INXS band member Andy Farriss, striking up an almost immediate bond. 

Williamson, chuffed to be in the running for "the big one'' after 25 years as a serious painter with only a few minor wins to her name - "I don't really enter many competitions'' - said she didn't see her Packing Room win as a jinx. What sustained her, she said, was a passion for painting, not prizes. 

As expected, celebrities featured strongly this year in this most celebrity-struck of art prizes. Sydney art dealers Roslyn Oxley and Eva Breur made a surprise appearance, so too a brazen art critic (Professor Bernard Smith), a sportsman (Anthony Mundine), a gaggle of painters and writers (Martin Sharp and Richard Neville), musicians (Simon Tedeschi and Richard Tognetti) and even a murderer. Past winner Adam Cullen's portrayal of super-criminal Mark "Chopper'' Read as a bullet-headed, gauche cartoon figure dominated the room. 

Newsworthiness, however, was no guarantee of selection this year, with portraits of ACCC chairman Alan Fels, Archbishop George Pell, Democrats leader Natasha Stott Despoja and Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock failing to make the cut.


Store workers judge Archibald entries
ABC
29 May 2002

 

Workers at the New South Wales Art Gallery have had their say and chosen the portrait of singer Jenny Morris as their favourite piece of high art. It's all part of the Packing Room Prize, the best entry for this year's Archibald portrait prize, as chosen by the hard-working storemen and women who've unwrapped the entries. The prize is adjudicated by the Gallery's chief storeman, Steve Peters, who this year even had his own portrait painted in a field of nearly 3,000 pieces of art.


Jenny Morris portrait wins Archibald packers' prize
SMH
29 May 2002

 

A portrait of singer-songwriter Jenny Morris has won the Archibald's packing room prize. But the victory was somewhat overshadowed by a controversial commendation awarded to a painting of the chief packer.

Sydney artist Jan Williamson's portrait of Ms Morris won the annual prize, which is decided by NSW Art Gallery packers who unload entries in the Archibald Prize.

Ms Williamson, a mother of nine from Waitara on Sydney's north shore, said she was not deterred by the fact the packing room winner had never gone on to win the Archibald.

"Just to get (your painting) hung is great," she said.

Ms Morris said she was happy to sit for the painting and was especially pleased with the end result.

"It's quite amazing what other people see in you," the entertainer said.

But it was a special commendation awarded to another painting that caused the greatest stir.

Chief packer Steve Peters, who has a staggering 51 per cent controlling vote, raised some eyebrows by singling out a portrait of himself by Queensland artist Dave Machin.

"They're both very sexy pictures," Mr Peters said.

In response to the controversy, gallery spokeswoman Jan Batten said the commendation would be a "one-off".

"It's so undemocratic, he (Mr Peters) has 51 per cent of the vote," she said.

"They all loved Jan's painting but I think he commended the other one out of recognition of what the other packers wanted."

To ensure the award remained fair this was the first and last time an artist would be allowed to enter a portrait of Mr Peters, Ms Batten said.

"It will be the last time that Steve will ever be painted," Ms Batten said. "We won't allow it."

Mr Peters today said other packers pushed him to recognise the portrait.

"A few of the guys wanted my one (to win) but I thought no - I don't think so," Mr Peters said.

The portrait of Mr Peters will hang outside the Archibald exhibition but is not a finalist for the prize.

Finalists for the Archibald, Wynne, Sulman and Dobell prizes, which will all feature in an exhibition at the galley, were announced today.

Ms Williamson's painting of Jenny Morris is a contender for the Archibald. Portraits of the last Anzac Sir Alec Campbell and journalist Richard Neville also made the final.

Ms Batten said the gallery was talking to artist Kim Spooner about damage allegedly done to her painting of Terence Stamp while it was being unpacked for the Archibald.

"We are having discussions at the moment," Ms Batten said.

All artists had to insure their entries, she said.

The winner of the Archibald will be announced at noon on Friday.


Jenny Morris
3 April 2002

 

Singer/songwriter Jenny Morris is one of Australia’s most consistently successful recording artists, with over 500,000 albums sold, including multi-platinum for ‘Shiver’ and Platinum for ‘Body & Soul’.

Jenny has toured with INXS and Paul McCartney, and has been awarded Australian Female Artist of the Year several times by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Her next album, the first with Yep! Records, features the single "Home" and will be released in 2002.


Jenny Morris
Jon Hart
4 March 2002

 

Six years ago Jenny Morris chose family over music. Her decision to raise two children meant she put on hold a career that had marked her as one of the nation's finest singer/songwriters.

But from Friday night's show its clear that the early mornings and nappy changing have not wearied her.

A relaxed and energetic Morris showed she had not lost her vocal abilities, nor her fans. The 45-year-old charmed the crowd with funny anecdotes, playing some new songs as well as all her classics from Break in the Weather to Street of Love and ending with You I Know.


Jenny Morris & Friends
8 February 2002 

 

Please note that due to the adverse weather conditions experienced for last Friday's performance of the James Morrison Cuban Experience, ticket holders have been offered the opportunity to attend the Jenny Morris and Friends performance on Friday February 8 at 7.30pm. This applies to ticket holders from Friday 1 February ONLY.  Those wishing to take advantage of this offer need only present their ticket from that concert to gain access to this Friday's show. Replacement tickets are not required.

Tower Twilight at Taronga 

After performing with INXS, Jenny Morris launched herself spectacularly as a solo artist with catchy pop hits 'She Has to Be Loved', 'Body & Soul' and Neil Finn's tune 'You I Know'. This special concert will showcase her incredible career including new hits with special guests Diesel, Shanley and the highly acclaimed CODA.

Groups of 8+ Save! Call (02) 9266 4807 

BOOK 5 CONCERTS FOR THE PRICE OF 4 on (02) 9266 4868 or through your nearest Ticketek agency 

Times On Friday and Saturday evenings the concerts start at 7:30pm, gates open exclusively for concertgoers at 6:00pm, an hour after norman Zoo closing time. Sunday concerts commence at the special time of 6:00pm, gates open at 5:00pm. 

Enter through the Zoo's Main Gate and stroll down to the outdoor Concert Stage close to the elephant Temple. Catering Patrons can bring a picnic hamper, or purchase light snacks, wine, beers and other drinks at a kiosk at the concert site.

Seating The concert lawn is unreserved picnic style. Personal chairs are welcome. Weather Please note that the show will go ahead in inclement weather, so we advise that if concertgoers are concerned to come prepared with wet weather gear. The concert will only be cancelled in extreme or unsafe conditions. A cancelled concert will not be re-scheduled, tickets will be fully refunded from point of sale.

Fridays & Saturdays Doors/Box Office: 6:00pm
Interval: 8:15pm
Finish (approx): 9:30pm


Morris a Major in Australia Day Musical Celbrations
26 January 2002 

 

AUSTRALIAN pop star Jenny Morris will headline the festivities at this year's

AUSTRALIAN pop star Jenny Morris will headline the festivities at this year's Australia Day concert at Speers Point Park. The performance from Morris will be the first of many as she works her way around the country to promote the release of her new single Home. The single is her first in six years and is taken from her forthcoming album Hit and Myth which is due in stores later this year. Her long break away from the limelight came when Morris chose to spend more time with her family. 'I haven't released an album for six years, basically it's just been bringing up babies and that sort of thing,' Morris says. 'But I've been writing all that time and bringing out demos so I had a really good body of work from which to choose from this time. Morris will headline the show which will also feature performances from local funk act Chi, jazz band Makin' Whoopee and alternative act Equinox. The celebrations will begin at 9.30am and include tree giveaways, children's activities, citizenship ceremonies and the introduction of the Citizen and Young Citizen of the Year.


Woodford Festival and the Adelaide Fringe Festival
6 November 2001

 

Jenny Morris is several times Australian Female Artist of the Year and one of Australia's most consistently successful recording artists with a staggering total of over 500,000 albums sold including multi platinum 'Shiver' and Platinum for 'Body & Soul'. 

'Home' is the beautiful first single from her highly anticipated new Yep! Records album (2002 release). 2002 will see Jenny Morris touring nationally - booked to feature at Woodford Festival and the Adelaide Fringe Festival.


Home
The Basement

2 November 2001

 

Jenny will be showcasing some of her new material, including her latest single "Home" in a special show at The Basement on 5 November, Monday. Well, seeing as though she was already going to be in the neighbourhood, we thought we'd get her to drop by the studio for a bit of a preview. Doug plays host from 11.30am AEDST that morning.


The Songs of Carole King - Tapestry
BOCS Ticketing & Marketing Services

8 September 2001

 

30th anniversary concert tribute performed by Vika & Linda Bull, Jenny Morris, Jodi Phillis, Karma County

Following a sell-out show at the Sydney Opera House last October, the songs from Carole King's legendary album, Tapestry, are being performed live in concert nationally by leading Australian singers. This is a unique opportunity to hear Carole King's masterpiece performed by Vika & Linda BuLL, Jenny Morris, Jodi Phillis and Karma County Carole King is one of the most prolific and successful pop songwriters of all time.

This concert tour pays tribute to the thirtieth anniversary of her solo album Tapestry, a collection of unforgettable songs which remain as fresh, as poignant and as enjoyable today as they were when the album was released in May 1971.

“Melodies like Ms King’s are indeed beyond fashion, lodged in some proverbial corner of the soul” New York Times 16 Oct 1999. 

Since then more than 20 million Tapestry albums have sold worldwide. When first released it held Number One position on the US charts for 15 weeks and remained on the national album chart for an incredible 302 weeks, garnering four Top Ten hits, including It’s Too Late/I Feel the Earth Move and four Grammy Awards for Album of the Year, Record of the Year (It’s Too Late), Song of the Year (You’ve Got a Friend) and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female.
   
EVENT The Songs of Carole King - Tapestry
VENUE Perth Concert Hall
ADDRESS 5 St Georges Terrace  Perth
STARTS Saturday 8th September 2001
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The Songs of Carole King
Spirit Entertainment

4 September 2001 

 

Maggie Gerrand, Tim Woods and Spirit Entertainment present 30th anniversary concert tribute performed by Vika & Linda Bull, Jenny Morris, Jodi Phillis, Karma County.

Following a sell-out show at the Sydney Opera House last October, the songs from Carole King's legendary album, Tapestry, are being performed live in concert nationally by leading Australian singers. This is a unique opportunity to hear Carole King's masterpiece performed by Vika & Linda Bull, Jenny Morris, Jodi Phillis and Karma County.

Carole King is one of the most prolific and successful pop songwriters of all time. This concert tour pays tribute to the 30th anniversary of her solo album Tapestry, a collection of unforgettable songs which remain as fresh, as poignant and as enjoyable today as  they were when the album was released in May 1971.

"Melodies like Ms King's are indeed beyond fashion, lodged in some proverbial corner of the soul." New York Times 16 Oct 1999.

Since then more than 20 million Tapestry albums have sold worldwide. When first released it held Number One position on the US charts for 15 weeks and remained on the national album chart for an incredible 302 weeks, garnering four Top Ten hits, including It's Too Late, I Feel the Earth Move and four Grammy Awards for Album of the Year, Record of the Year (It's Too Late), Song of the Year (You've Got a Friend) and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female.

"The High Priestess of Melody and the hits she wrote have fed the legends of soul singers, girl groups,  rock stars and most impressively herself". New York Times, October 1999.

A few of those legends are The Beatles, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Hanson, Tracy Chapman, Kylie Minogue, Herman's Hermits, The Byrds, The Drifters, Carly Simon, James Taylor, Rod Stewart, Isaac Hayes and The Monkees.

Performed in the Concert Hall.

Venue Information

Sydney Opera House, NSW


Little Little as featured on SBS "Mums the Word"
SBS

2 July 2001

 

Heard the song "Little Little" tonight on SBS production "Mum's the Word".. Is this available as CD single or featured on any album that is available for purchase?


4th New Fan Site
Tony Senatore

20 August 2000

 

I would like to welcome Karen Hoyer, forth website on Jenny Morris. 


Site Won Award
UBL

29 July 2000

 

I received email by UBL, It say your site was vote Best Resource Site on Jenny Morris the Australasian singer. 


Canberra Spirit Of Christmas
ABC

20 December 1999

 

Jenny Morris will perform in "Canberra Spirit Of Christmas", ABC TV will broadcast it live on 24 December, Friday.

 


Oak Flats Bowling Club
11 December 1999

 

Jenny Morris will perform at :

Oak Flats Bowling Club
Wednesday 15 December 1999
Time : 6.30pm
3 Course Christmas Dinner
Tickets : $40pp book now


Create Mailing List
4 December 1999

 

I create the Jenny Morris Mailing List for her fans to be inform on tour dates and her new album etc.


Cambridge Hotel
19 October 1999

 

Jenny Morris will perform at Cambridge Hotel on 22 October, Friday. She has a new manager. Her new album will not be out early next year, instead it might be out in middle of next year.


Siblings
24 August 1999

 

Photographer Robert Rosen has released a book call "Siblings", it has Jenny Morris with his brothers Tam and Rhys embracing, and many more from the entertainment industry. 


3rd New Fan Site
Tony Senatore

6 July 1999

 

I would like to welcome David Turner, third website on Jenny Morris.


Thank You Jenny Morris
Tony Senatore

8 April 1999

 

I would like to thank Jenny Morris for personally signing my guestbook and to inform her fans about her new album soon to be released.


Thank You Amanda Vincent
Tony Senatore

21 March 1999

 

I would like to thank Amanda Vincent for signing my guestbook. I forward your email to Jenny Morris.


2nd New Fan Site
Tony Senatore

14 June 1998

 

I would like to welcome Stephen Lambe, second website on Jenny Morris. 


Good Viberations Official website
Tony Senatore

27 March 1998

 

I would to thank Good Viberations Official website for adding my fan site.


The Starfish Club
18 February 1998

 

Jenny Morris will perform at The Starfish Club on 20 February, Saturday.


Water Rats: Episode 041
Denise Morgan
19 May 1997

 

Written by Denise Morgan, Directed by Chris Martin-Jones

The detectives are called in to investigate when a young woman believed to have been stalked by an admirer called "Desperate Dave" is reported missing. Sykes, Tayler and Tavita attempt to outwit a couple of bag snatchers at Darling Harbour but their pursuit is halted when Tayler falls overboard. Hawker stumbles upon Helen and Tayler's relation when he confronts them believing the two are involved intimately.©tzuk

Guest Starring: Anja Coleby as Linda "Coco" Jones, Rachel Blake as Carly Bridges, Alex Morcos as Ellery Mason, Arky Michael as Dave Fremont, Jenny Morris as Marlene O'Brien. With: Penelope Timmis, Carlo Berkley, Jarrah Knox, Stuart Tilse, Suzanne Marshall, Jo Ellicot, and Alexander Luppi.