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SELWYN TIMES Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Wednesday <strong>July</strong> <strong>15</strong> <strong>2020</strong> 9<br />
<strong>Selwyn</strong> Sounds<br />
Rocker to sing from extensive back catalogue<br />
• By Matt Slaughter<br />
WHEN JON Stevens’ song<br />
Jezebel reached number one on<br />
the New Zealand charts in 1979,<br />
a career in music wasn’t on his<br />
mind.<br />
Said Stevens: “I made a record<br />
when I was 16, it came out when<br />
I was 17, which was Jezebel. It<br />
was released and three weeks<br />
later it was No 1 and all of a<br />
sudden, I was famous in New<br />
Zealand.<br />
“It [music] was something<br />
that I didn’t pursue at all, it<br />
was like a happy accident<br />
actually because it wasn’t<br />
something I was actually into<br />
doing,” he said.<br />
But Stevens, who is entertainer<br />
Frankie Stevens’ brother,<br />
couldn’t stay away from music,<br />
and more than four decades<br />
later, he is set to headline <strong>Selwyn</strong><br />
Sounds on March 6 at Lincoln<br />
Domain.<br />
Jon Stevens is best known<br />
for being the lead singer of<br />
Noiseworks. He was also lead<br />
singer of legendary Australian<br />
band INXS for four years after<br />
former frontman Michael<br />
Hutchence died.<br />
The <strong>Selwyn</strong> Sounds crowd can<br />
expect Stevens to belt out a set<br />
of hits from both of these bands<br />
when he takes the stage.<br />
Said Stevens: “I’ve got a<br />
pretty good setlist going with,<br />
obviously, both bands’ songs.<br />
You can’t please everybody, but<br />
nobody’s disappointed ever.<br />
“It’s just hit after hit, you<br />
know,” he said.<br />
Stevens said these hits will<br />
include INXS songs Need You<br />
Tonight, Don’t Change and<br />
Suicide Blonde and Noiseworks’<br />
Hot Chilli Woman.<br />
Stevens fronted INXS in the<br />
early 2000s after Hutchence’s<br />
death in 1997 and toured with<br />
the band for four years.<br />
“When I joined INXS, it was<br />
just one of those things where it<br />
seemed like a perfectly natural<br />
fit and it was, and it’s something<br />
that I know, and we all knew,<br />
Michael would have been more<br />
than happy for me to do because<br />
we were compadres.”<br />
Stevens said he and Hutchence<br />
had “mutual admiration” for<br />
ROCKING OUT:<br />
Jon Stevens will<br />
be performing<br />
a set including<br />
songs from<br />
Noiseworks<br />
and INXS at<br />
<strong>Selwyn</strong> Sounds<br />
on March 6.<br />
The Lady Killers<br />
will also be<br />
performing. <br />
each other.<br />
“He [Hutchence] was a very<br />
warm and engaging fellow. He<br />
was a lovely bloke [with] charisma<br />
to burn. One thing people didn’t<br />
realise about Michael was he had<br />
a really, really big voice, it was<br />
really so loud.<br />
“Because his subtlety in his<br />
lower register was just incredible<br />
and his tone was incredible,<br />
when he jumped up an octave<br />
and started belting it out, it was<br />
just like, man, so full-on, and<br />
that’s probably a big part of his<br />
magic,” he said.<br />
Stevens is looking forward<br />
to the <strong>Selwyn</strong> Sounds crowd<br />
hearing his spin on the INXS<br />
songs and said he has the band’s<br />
blessing to perform them.<br />
Some of Stevens’ best career<br />
memories have been playing<br />
shows with artists including<br />
Elton John, Aerosmith and Slash<br />
and performing at venues such<br />
as Madison Square Garden in<br />
New York and Wembley Stadium<br />
in London.<br />
He said he is looking forward<br />
to seeing the huge Kiwi lineup<br />
set to take the stage at <strong>Selwyn</strong><br />
Sounds and his highlights will be<br />
seeing Stan Walker, The Jordan<br />
Luck Band, The Lady Killers and<br />
Annie Crummer.<br />
•To get tickets to <strong>Selwyn</strong><br />
Sounds 2021 visit https://<br />
selwynsounds.co.nz/<br />
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