Adelaide's own Bald Eagles play the Eagles

From Desperado and Hotel California to the new double album, Long Road Out of Eden, three old bald blokes and three wanna-be-balds tackle all the hits and a handful of the misses of America's favourite country rockers.

"The hotel is packed to the rafters. From the opening song 'Take It Easy' the audience is hooked. With a repertoire covering the entire Eagles catalogue, The Bald Eagles with some neat six-part-harmonies fire out song after song... Like the original Eagles, the Bald Eagles combine solid musicianship and harmonies... a show for laid-back outlaws (and) California Country Rock fans."

Steven Davenport, Independent Weekly, March 2009

"This group has an affinity with The Eagles' music and what seems like it might have started as a joke, has become tight nostalgic transportation."

Mike Gribble, The Advertiser, March 2009

Adelaide Fringe 2012

The Bald Eagles generally eschew fringes, tho’ Adelaide has quite a nice one. We suspect, however, that it’s a comb-over. If you’re out and about on a windy night and you see it blow all the way back we’d like to know. And if you’re chancing your own comb-over to a windy night out on the Fringe, do it with the Bald Eagles in their hilarious, grumpy new cabaretta in three axe.

Life in the Slow Lane II is one half life, one half slow and the other half lane. And it’s no more profound than that as we explore the downhill journey from youthful optimism to the dark side of geriatriccenticity and disgruntled sexagenarianism.

Like Baby Boomers themselves, it is indulged, indulgent, direct, directionless and in the end probably a complete disappointment to its parents. But as a bit of selfish fun, well... you can’t argue with nearly 3 hours of Eagles’ hits and sublime harmonies and the grumpy, incisive and very wry wit of the Baldies.

And for steak knives, we’ve got a Surprise Megastar from public life as a special guest each night.

German Club ballroom, 223 Flinders Street, Adelaide
March 9, 10, 16 & 17 at 8.30pm

See FringeTIX for bookings.

“Skol to the Bald Ealges. They drive the music like in a Wolwo with no-one else is in the Universe and the cd machine stuck on Ealges’ best hits. This is musical Top Gear and who dies isn’t mattering.” Notto Betaken Seriously Music, Aftondagbladet, Stockholm, Dec 2011

Life in the Slow Lane II is descended from The Bald Eagles (Fringe 2009) and Life in the Slow Lane I (Fringe 2010).
Like the band, they sold out.