BLUES LEGENDS TO ROCK FREE SHOW
AMERICAN blues legends Canned Heat accidentally pulled a John Farnham after announcing they’d be back in Australia for Blues on Broadbeach next week.
Drummer, singer and original member Adolfo “Fito” de la Parra swore 2018 was the last year they’d tour Australia, but the Gold Coast’s largest free blues concert made them an offer they couldn’t refuse.
“We just played a fantastic tour in Australia last year, we played the Bryon Bay (Bluesfest) music festival,” Mr de la Parra said.
“I thought that was going to be the last time we were in Australia. All of a sudden my manager says we have an offer to play at the Blues Festival, which I played eight or nine years ago. He said ‘they want you back in Australia’.
“We’re all in our 70s … I guess they figured we don’t have that many years left so they better get us now.”
The band promises to put on an electric show when they headline The Star Stage at Surf Parade on Sunday night, May 19. AN attack by a shark has killed a surfer off France’s Indian Ocean island of Reunion, the latest fatality in increasingly dangerous waters, emergency services said on Thursday.
The surfer, a man aged 28, lost a leg in the attack and was pronounced dead on being brought back to the port of Saint-Leu in the west of the island. It is the 24th shark attack recorded since 2011 on the island, which is French territory, and the 11th one to result in a fatality. As after previous attacks, operations have started to catch sharks in the waters of the incident.