Warning -combustible materials

Groove Temple survived another night of Shellharbour madness on Saturday 26th August at the Shellharbour Workers Club. The guys were very fortunate to have another regular, Matt Schlam, warm up the crowd for them with his blistering guitar and riveting rock renditions of some truly classic pub rock tunes.

A hard act to follow because of his musical excellence, but the boys rose to the challenge. In particular Dr K stated that he was inspired by Matt’s precise, professional work. The good doctor certainly came out of his corner hitting hard and low with a funkelicious groove attack on Groove Temple’s set list. The rest of the band followed suit, keeping their heads to the ground and quickly coaxing up a full dance floor of Shellharbourians. (That’s two made-up words in one report so far!)

Both acts on the night left the audience calling for more. Seems the party at Shellharbour is never ending and the locals don’t need much fuel to keep the fire going. Fortunately the GT have plenty of the necessary combustibles.

Groove Temple will be fully loaded and ready to fire on Saturday 2 September at the Sussex Inlet Tavern on the South Coast and all look forward to catching up with some of the locals.

Fire-proof attire is optional.

Six months later..........

Groove Temple's Ang, Red & Dr K had a collective moment of lucidity on the weekend, when they realised they had been playing together for 6 months, covering 30+ gigs and numerous private functions.

GT reported being happy with the band progress so far but for Ang, nothing happens fast enough: "I've been unhappy with our recording progress so far, but it's self-inflicted due to health problems. I attempted a vocal session in the studio two weeks ago whilst suffering from asthma and will have to do it again, as it was terrible. In my defence, I didn't realise I was sick, because this whole asthma thing is very subtle. I found out that if you're really fit, you can still suffer from asthma, but not necessarily realise it. I can say that it was really hard to sing. I'm all grown up now, as of Wednesday. So I'm dealing with it differently now and doing what I'm told. Great. Life has come back to full circle. Just perfect!

Nevertheless Ang and the boys hit the ground running on the weekend and hit some scorching home runs with some of their favourite dance tunes at the Dandaloo Hotel at Kanahooka on Friday and again at the Grand Hotel in Kiama on Saturday night.

Red hit some real runs on a different field on Sunday, as his baseball team won their comp, as expected. The man is a champion and the team always looked like winning. Groove Temple news reports that he sounds pretty happy at the moment.

Groove Temple are planning to hit more home runs with some new tunes on Saturday 26th August for the Shellharbour Workers Club from 10:30. Another home game guys!!

The GT will be pumping!

All systems go!!!

Groove Temple extend apologies if any one was inconvenienced with their inability to play on the weekend just gone and now gladly report the brain surgery was successful. All members are ready to fire for the weekend. The boys will be at the Dandaloo Hotel on Friday 18 August to break the drought, followed by the Grand Hotel at Kiama on Saturday 19th August to seriously rock the locals.

The boys all report they are itching to play again and promise to leave a stain or two on the weekend. See you there.

Cancelled gig

Due to unforseen circumstances, Groove Temple is unable to perform on Saturday 12th August at Greenwell Point Bowling Club. Groove Temple News noted that lead vocalist Ang was guarded in his comments about the incident, but did say that ".......from a safety perspective, no musician should ever be left alone naked, with a jar of honey, a hairbrush and....ummm, sorry, no further comment..."

The square root of all evil

Groove Temple News reports this week that the band had their best ever gig at the Goulburn Workers Club on Saturday 5th August. They rocked, blasted, grooved, funked out, flailed, seduced and boogied the town. No prisoners were taken; -sorry, no room, the band wheels are already packed full of chocolatey musical goodness, and the odd empty Corona.

Groove Temple features three of the most talented and experienced muso's in the business, with Dr K on guitars and vocals, delivering some supremo guitar sounds and even greater licks. The Doctor has been working with an ankle injury of late, but nothing gets in the road of his beloved wah-pedal and to his credit, he hasn't missed a beat during his rehabilitation. Saturday night was proof positive that you can't keep a good man down. He's almost recovered.

Ang on lead vocals and guitars has been consistently punching out juicy grooves in Groove Temple and as the band's stage sound technician, has the delicious and enviable position of controlling the band sound. Ang has always waxed lyrical about the joy of mixing and playing in G.T: "I love having good sounds to play with. The guys make it easy. Dr K's sound and technical proficiency speaks for itself. Also he clearly loves playing. I think he's the type of guy who would shrivel up and die if he wasn't playing in a happening band. Red is also a true pro and goes to the trouble of setting up the right sound for every gig. He always tunes his kit, always. As for his kick drum sound, he combines art and science to deliver the true heart beat of the band. It's alchemy. On Saturday I saw him measure ambient air temperature, determine room humidity via a micro-chip installed behind his left ear, calculated the "vibe" of the room, multiplied the sum by 3.14285714285, (without a calculator!) then maybe he divides this value by the square root of all evil? Well, at least that's what I think he does..Maybe not....Aaah....My head hurts now....this interview is now over...." (Editors note: Subject lapsed into coma shortly after interview was terminated.)

Groove Temple look forward to Saturday 12th August at the Greenwell Point Bowling Club, and hope to see a repeat of their last gig there in July. GET READY TO BOOGIE HARD, PEOPLE!!!!