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
2012 - How To Miss The Unmissable
If you weren't at either of the Bald Eagles' previous two Fringe Festival
cabaret seasons, it would be interesting to know how you missed such
unmissable shows. Perhaps it was because both seasons sold out weeks before
opening night. Or you prefer Kennys G or Rogers to The Eagles.
But chance often returns to the luckless, this time with our mostly totally
new missable show: Life in the Slow Lane II, which - despite a much larger
venue - is already proving one of the hot tickets for Fringe 2012.
Life in the Slow Lane II tracks the passage of the Baby Boomer from
invincible youth to the dysfunction that resides on the sexagenarian cusp of
geriactriccentricity. But far from maudlin, it's a wry look at the bright as
well as dark and a night of cabaret that will leave you gasping (perhaps not
for more, given that the show races through 150 minutes of hits and
harmonies).
Scattered throughout the Highly Intelligent and Hilarious Drama will be
over 20 Eagles' songs from this and last centuries and a smattering not just
of others such as Crosby Stills Nash & Young and America, but of the band
that laid the foundations of the Balds when the older members first took to
the concert stage forty years ago this year.
And if steak knives are influential for you when it comes to making purchase
decisions... the show features several Prominent Figures from Public Life
parachuting in when you least expect it for their first-ever Fringe
performances.
WHAT TO MISS WHERE AND WHEN
Life in the Slow Lane II
German Club (it's a fabulous cabaret venue)
223 Flinders St Adelaide (easy parking)
Fri Mar 9, Sat Mar 10, Fri Mar 16, Sat Mar 17 at 8.30pm. Doors open at 7.30pm
HOW NOT TO MISS IT
Book now at www.adelaidefringe.com.au or call 1300 374 643.
Preview Fri Mar 9: $19, $17 conc
Sat Mar 10, Fri Mar 16, Sat Mar 17: $23, $19 conc, $20 groups of 6 or more (Booking fees apply)
You will have the options of: dancing, drinking (we are sponsored, proudly of course, by Shingleback Wine of McLaren Vale) singing along, modestly priced supper.
