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10 Wednesday <strong>August</strong> <strong>21</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
SELWYN TIMES<br />
<strong>Selwyn</strong> Sounds<br />
Icehouse will wind the clock back<br />
• By Matt Slaughter<br />
FEW BANDS can boast opening<br />
for David Bowie just six years<br />
after forming.<br />
But for front man Iva Davies<br />
and his band Icehouse, this is<br />
exactly what happened.<br />
The award-winning Australian<br />
rock outfit will bring their hitfilled<br />
set to <strong>Selwyn</strong> Sounds on<br />
March 7 next year.<br />
Icehouse’s line-up has changed<br />
many times since forming as<br />
Flowers more than 40 years ago.<br />
Davies has been there since the<br />
beginning.<br />
He said years of on-stage<br />
experience and songwriting<br />
would be encapsulated in<br />
the band’s <strong>Selwyn</strong> Sounds<br />
performance.<br />
“I’ve been working with some<br />
of these guys for 35 years and<br />
they are absolutely the most brilliant<br />
set of musicians that Australia<br />
has to offer, I’m completely<br />
confident in saying that.”<br />
Davies said the band was very<br />
selective with where they played<br />
these days, but they wanted to<br />
play <strong>Selwyn</strong> Sounds because<br />
New Zealand audiences had<br />
always been some of their biggest<br />
supporters.<br />
“The kind of relationship that<br />
we have with New Zealand is<br />
quite a special one because in the<br />
80s when we were in full swing,<br />
we noted even then per head of<br />
population we actually had more<br />
success in New Zealand than<br />
anywhere else in the world.”<br />
But, it is fair to say Icehouse’s<br />
music has been heard and appreciated<br />
by audiences all over<br />
the world.<br />
Davies said the turnaround<br />
from being a band of 20-something<br />
year olds $18,000 in debt to<br />
their management, to achieving<br />
international success had not<br />
been easy.<br />
“It was just ridiculously hard<br />
work.<br />
ENERGY:<br />
Iva Davies,<br />
front man of<br />
Australian<br />
band<br />
Icehouse,<br />
will perform<br />
at <strong>Selwyn</strong><br />
Sounds<br />
at Lincoln<br />
Domain<br />
in March.<br />
PHOTO: TONY<br />
MOTT<br />
“The first album [Icehouse<br />
when the band was still called<br />
Flowers] was a massive success<br />
in Australia, it was the highestselling<br />
debut album by any Australian<br />
band at that point . . . I<br />
remember when that first royalty<br />
cheque turned up. At that point<br />
I actually had no home, I was<br />
kind of couch surfing and under<br />
duress living in my parents home<br />
which I hated doing.<br />
“When that first album came<br />
out it was a big success and of<br />
course, we were able to pay off<br />
that debt and end up finally<br />
earning some money.”<br />
Davies said he didn’t believe<br />
the money would keep rolling<br />
in and certainly not that three<br />
years later Icehouse would have<br />
to choose between touring with<br />
David Bowie or Peter Gabriel.<br />
They decided to support Bowie<br />
on his 1983 Serious Moonlight<br />
European tour.<br />
“The sheer scale of it was just<br />
beyond comprehension when<br />
you’re playing to 70,000 people<br />
every show that you do . . . I<br />
remember pulling into one big<br />
outdoor show and there were<br />
about 10 coaches, 10 buses . . . my<br />
kind of head exploded because I<br />
couldn’t conceive 10 buses full of<br />
crew working on a single show.”<br />
Davies said the <strong>Selwyn</strong> Sounds<br />
crowd could expect Icehouse to<br />
wind back the clock and put on<br />
a performance with just as much<br />
energy as they brought all those<br />
years ago.<br />
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