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Kacey Jones at the Noise Bar

Nu Country TV will feature highlights of the autumn international and local country music tour flood when we return to air in June.

We have more exclusive footage of U.S. country stars Kacey Jones and Becky Hobbs live at the Noise Bar in Brunswick.

Our camera crew Sean Tierney and Tim Cole have produced and edited their special episode from the concert for Series #10 of Nu Country TV.

We will also feature selected highlights from the concert in previews for the special.

Kacey donated autographed copies of her Mickey Newbury tribute CD to help boost our membership base.

CLICK HERE for our membership page for details of your rewards for being a Nu Country member.

PICTURES AND STORIES

Web mistress Anne Sydenham and photographer to the stars John Karpik have also shot exclusive pictures of Jones and Hobbs and Avril from the Noise Bar.

They appear here and in a concert review and Diary feature on the tour that began on Tamworth Country Music Train on January 19 and included concerts in Tamworth and Sydney before the Noise Bar concert and finale show at the Bayleaf Restaurant, Dandenong.

CLICK HERE for David Dawson's road diary - Brunswick or Bust - on the road with the Shameless Hussy and the Cowgirl.
CLICK HERE for a feature on Kacey Jones and Olivia Newton-John in the Diary on January 20.
CLICK HERE for a feature on Hobbs from the Diary on December 15, 2007.
CLICK HERE for a Noise Bar concert review.

SUGARLAND INTERVIEW

Other major touring acts featured in the new series include U.S chart toppers diverse as Sugarland and Brooks & Dunn, Corb Lund, Patty Griffin and Jim Lauderdale.

Nu Country will also feature an exclusive interview Sugarland who play Northcote Social Club on Tuesday March 18 after performing at the Snowy Mountains festival at Thredbo on March 14 and 15 and the West Coast roots music festival in Fremantle on March 16.

CLICK HERE for our pre-tour interview with Sugarland singer Jennifer Nettles from our Diary on March 3.

ADAM BRAND INTERVIEW
We also have new video clips by artists diverse as Alan Jackson, Carrie Underwood, Garth Brooks, Kenny Chesney, Dale Watson, Steve Earle and Emerson Drive.

And, of course, we feature new clips by Australian acts including Catherine Britt, Steve Forde, The Flood, Jayne Denham, Kirsty Lee Akers, Sara Storer, Nicki Gillis and Davidson Brothers.

Nu Country TV will also feature highlights of the Port Fairy, Point Nepean and Snowy Mountains festivals.

Sean Tierney has edited live footage of Snowy Townsend's Bona Fide Travellers, Leslie Avril and former Toe Sucking Cowgirl Tracey Bunn live from Hotel Kew.

We also have an exclusive interview with Perth born, Queensland country star Adam Brand - winner of 13 Golden Guitars - and his new video clips.
Brand, who lived in Wallington and Colac in Western Victoria during his secondary education, is promoting his seventh album Blame It On Eve on an east coast tour with Noiseworks singer Jon Stevens.

CLICK HERE for the Adam Brand feature from the Diary on March 3
.

NU COUNTRY TV LIVE ON THE WEB

We have good news for Nu Country TV fans here and overseas.

Select episodes of the show are now available online at the web page of the Victorian mother ship C 31.

That's a bonus for Peter Hosking - our founder and executive producer-in-exile in Prague - and international artists touring Australia in 2008.

The episodes available for viewing online are February 9 and 23, 2008.

To access Nu Country live on the web please visit: http://www.c31.org.au/shows/show.php?showid=148&t=video


PATTY GRIFFIN RETURNS FOR TOUR #2

Maine born and latter day Texan singer-songwriter Patty Griffin returns to Australia for her second tour in March.

She plays the Port Nepean and Byron Bay blues festivals at Easter with John Fogerty and expatriate Australasian superstar Keith Urban.

Fogerty also performs at Rod Laver Arena on March 19 and Patty and band play at St Kilda Palais Theatre on March 28.

Griffin toured Australia from November 13-23 with her guitarist Doug Lancio.

Patty, 43, is a prolific hit writer for herself and other major artists and her songs have appeared in a brace of movies.


Patty Griffin - Palais 28/3/08

Click here for a review of the concert

She is promoting her seventh CD Children Running Through and new 14-track DVD Live At The Artists Den in New York City.

Web mistress Anne Sydenham has reviewed Patty's Melbourne concerts for our live review section of the web page.


CLICK HERE for our new interview with Patty in the Diary.


CLICK HERE for our previous interview with Patty in the Diary on March 1, 2006.

CLICK HERE for Patty Griffin concert review

NU COUNTRY TV LAUNCHES IN QUEENSLAND

We have more exciting news for country music lovers - Nu Country TV premiered in Queensland in August.

The show debuted on C 31 in Brisbane on Thursday August 16 at 8 p m and repeats on Fridays at 9.30 am.

C 31 in Queensland will reach back to Series #1, created in the spring of 2003, as its entrée.

It will then use more recent episodes of the show - brainchild of celebrated Melbourne actor and voiceover maestro Peter Hosking.

Country music lovers in Queensland join a vast cast in Victoria and South Australia as viewers of the show that also screens twice weekly on the Family Television Network in New Zealand.


Corb Lund Concert Review
by Peter O'Keefe

NU COUNTRY TV NEWS ON MELBOURNE RADIO

Nu Country TV producer David Dawson joins Stereo 974 personality Bob Taylor
on air each Monday and Thursday at 10 am to deliver the latest music news.

The duo breaks the latest country music and movie stories from here and overseas and also preview Series #10 of Nu Country TV that premieres in June.

These are good tidings for listeners to the country oasis in the hits and memories and pop commercial radio desert of Melbourne.

The Brooklyn community radio station now broadcasts country music from 9 am to 6 pm on weekdays.

Stereo 974 experienced a huge increase in listeners since veteran radio personality and vocal coach Taylor replaced pop with country music in his shows.

Taylor, renowned for his DJ training and production at Nu Country FM in its halcyon days, practices what he preaches - back announcing of songs and artists.

Nu Country TV Vice President and popular DJ Rod Browne also hosts Action Country on Stereo 974 on weekdays from 3-6 pm.

The nine-hour country oasis compliments Stereo 974 manager Rod Boyd's Truck Stop from midnight-dawn on weekdays and midnight-8 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

Programmer Taylor will update the station's music daily and is reached by email at
bob@stereo974.com

The strength of the Stereo 974 FM signal means country music will now be heard 15 hours a day throughout the metropolitan area.

Geelong listeners will also have even greater choice - both Stereo 974 that penetrates the eastern extremities of Corio Bay - and Geelong Country FM.

And, as a bonus for listeners beyond Melbourne and Geelong, the country music is also accessed live on the Internet.
Further info - http://www.stereo974.com/

MORE NU COUNTRY TV VIP HOSTS

Brady joined other celebrities including Oregon country singer-quarter horse breeder Joni Harms, Rusty Rich of Scared Weird Little Guys, Kevin Bennett of The Flood and Hamish Davidson of The Davidson Brothers as guest hosts.

Our creator Peter Hosking and Mid Pacific Bob Olson collaborated on a tribute to our late host and Nu Country FM presenter Lawrie Weir who died at 58 on the eve of the new series.

CLICK HERE for our obituary on Lawrie in the Diary on May 27.

NU COUNTRY TV ALSO IN NEW ZEALAND

Nu Country TV expanded into Rotorua in New Zealand after debuting on Family TV in Waikato, boosting its viewers by 60,000.

The popular show is screened on Family TV in Rotorua on Monday at 10.30 a m, Friday at 11.30 a m and Saturday at 10 p m.

Nu Country TV has become the only show of its genre on New Zealand TV.

MORE VIDEO CLIPS NEEDED

Nu Country TV beams into Phillip Island, West Gippsland, Geelong & the Surf Coast, Bellarine Peninsula, north to Mt Macedon and east to the Dandenongs.

We're also featured on C 31 in South Australia - home state of expatriate Greencards multi-instrumentalist Kym Warner and Nashville recording artist Jedd Hughes.

Golden Guitar winner Beccy Cole, Jake Nickolai and 2000 Star Maker winner Cat Southern also earned their stripes in home state South Australia.

This means 750,000 viewers plus for videos, interviews and live gig footage weekly.

Please send your video clips in mini-DV or DVD-R format to Nu Country - P O Box 625, Northcote - 3070.

We'll keep you up to date on country music through our concert reviews, features in our Diary and tours in TonkGirl's Gig Guide.

CLICK HERE for our Gig Guide.
And CLICK HERE for our live concert reviews.



 

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Monday 4.00pm
Wednesday 3.00am
Thursday 9.00am

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DIG COUNTRY RADIO

The ABC has added Dig Country to its on-line jazz and roots radio stations.

Adelaide bluegrass and roots country expert Richard Porteous and peers have created a joyous sound that is reminiscent of Nu Country FM in its halcyon days.

Tune in by visiting Dig Country.

LOCAL COMMUNITY RADIO

Other radio avenues include -

David Heard's Acid Country on PBS
106.7 FM, Thursday 3-5.30 PM

Denise Hylands Twang on RRR
102.7 FM - Saturday 2-4 PM

Rod Browne, Working Without A Net WYN- 88.9 FM - Thursday 6-8 PM

Midweek Country - INRFM 96.5FM Wednesday between 7pm & 9pm.
The presenters alternate each week, they are Bill Corrie & John Worth.

JOHN WORTH
REAL COUNTRY
WYNFM 88.9

Tuesday 8pm -10pm

COLIN WEIDNER Texas Time Travellin North West FM Glenroy 98.9 Saturday
6 p m - 8 p m

FRANK MCHUGH
That's Country
North West FM Glenroy 98.9 Sunday
12pm - 3 p m

IAN EDWARDS
playing a mix of Oz, US, Bluegrass Western swing & everything in between, on the Double Clutchin Weasel Show On 88.6FM
Wednesday night
@ 10.00PM - 12.00pm

GEELONG COUNTRY - 89.3 FM - 24 hours non-stop country

ROD BROWNE
STEREO
974 - BROOKLYN
Monday-Friday
3- 6 pm and Midnight to Dawn Daily.

BIG PETE WINDLE
FRIDAY
3MDR 97.1FM

9.30 pm to midnight
[full on country]