22 August 2003   
INXS Special

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.

8 August 2003   
Hit & Myth Tour

On 7 August I attend Jenny Morris concert at Canberra Southern Cross Club.

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 a hand 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. 

By Tony Senatore

4 April 2003   
Hit & Myth

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.

14 February 2003   
 

By Simon Sweetman

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)

15 October 2002   
Hit and Myth by Jenny Morris

By Phil Cullen

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.

24 August 2002   
Jenny Morris follow singles

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 Tour Dates

7 August 2002   
Jenny Morris a Comeback

 
By James O'Brien

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".

4 July 2002
New single Downtime

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

30 May 2002     
Others sent packing as Morris gets the nod

 
By Sharon Verghis 

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.

29 May 2002     
Jenny Morris portrait wins Archibald packers' prize

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.

3 April 2002      
Jenny Morris

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.

4 March 2002      
Jenny Morris

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.

By Jon Hart

8 February 2002      
Jenny Morris & Friends

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

26 January 2002      
Morris a Major in Australia Day Musical Celbrations

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.

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. 

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.

8 September 2001       

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.
 

For further information regarding group bookings, please contact 
BOCS TICKETING Group Booking Department on 9321 6831
Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm.

4 September 2001      
The Songs of Carole King

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.

2 July 2001      
Little Little as featured on SBS "Mums the Word

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?

20 August 2000     

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

29 July 2000

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

20 December 1999

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

14 December 1999

If you have a problem adding your name on Jenny Morris Mailing List, I can do for you. You will kept updated in Tour Dates and other info.

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

4 December 1999

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

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. 

Jenny Morris recorded new material at Tim Farriss recording studio. 

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. 

6 July 1999

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

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.

21 March 1999

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

14 June 1998

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

27 March 1998

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

18 February 1998

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

19 May 1997      
Water Rats: Episode 041

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.