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The Star Thursday July 16 2020 28 SELWYN SOUNDS Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz Rocker to sing from big back catalogue • By Matt Slaughter WHEN JON Stevens’ song Jezebel reached number one on the New Zealand charts in 1979, a career in music wasn’t on his mind. Said Stevens: “I made a record when I was 16, it came out when I was 17, which was Jezebel. It was released and three weeks later it was No 1 and all of a sudden, I was famous in New Zealand. “It [music] was something that I didn’t pursue at all, it was like a happy accident actually because it wasn’t something I was actually into doing,” he said. But Stevens, who is entertainer Frankie Stevens’ brother, couldn’t stay away from music, and more than four decades later, he is set to headline Selwyn Sounds on March 6 at Lincoln Domain. Jon Stevens is best known for being the lead singer of Noiseworks. He was also lead singer of legendary Australian band INXS for four years after former frontman Michael Hutchence died. The Selwyn Sounds crowd can expect Stevens to belt out a set of hits from both of these bands when he takes the stage. Said Stevens: “I’ve got a pretty good setlist going with, obviously, both bands’ songs. You can’t please everybody, but nobody’s disappointed ever. “It’s just hit after hit, you know,” he said. Stevens said these hits will include INXS songs Need You Tonight, Don’t Change and Suicide Blonde and Noiseworks’ Hot Chilli Woman. Stevens fronted INXS in the early 2000s after Hutchence’s death in 1997 and toured with the band for four years. “When I joined INXS, it was just one of those things where it seemed like a perfectly natural fit and it was, and it’s something that I know, and we all knew, Michael would have been more than happy for me to do because we were compadres.” Stevens said he and Hutchence had “mutual admiration” for ROCKING OUT: Jon Stevens will be performing a set including songs from Noiseworks and INXS at Selwyn Sounds on March 6. The Lady Killers will also be performing. each other. “He [Hutchence] was a very warm and engaging fellow. He was a lovely bloke [with] charisma to burn. One thing people didn’t realise about Michael was he had a really, really big voice, it was really so loud. “Because his subtlety in his lower register was just incredible and his tone was incredible, when he jumped up an octave and started belting it out, it was just like, man, so full-on, and that’s probably a big part of his magic,” he said. Stevens is looking forward to the Selwyn Sounds crowd hearing his spin on the INXS songs and said he has the band’s blessing to perform them. Some of Stevens’ best career memories have been playing shows with artists including Elton John, Aerosmith and Slash and performing at venues such as Madison Square Garden in New York and Wembley Stadium in London. He said he is looking forward to seeing the huge Kiwi lineup set to take the stage at Selwyn Sounds and his highlights will be seeing Stan Walker, The Jordan Luck Band, The Lady Killers and Annie Crummer. •To get tickets to Selwyn Sounds 2021 visit https:// selwynsounds.co.nz/ 6 MARCH LINCOLN JON STEVENS THE NOISEWORKS +INXS COLLECTION 2021 STAN WALKER JORDAN LUCK BAND ANNIE CRUMMER • JASON KERRISON OPSHOP • THE LADY KILLERS RODNEY FISHER GOODSHIRT • CHE FU SUPERGROOVE • NATHAN KING + ANDY LYNCH ZED AUTOMATIC 80’s • THE REMNANTS OF HELLO SAILOR Tickets On Sale Now www.selwynsounds.co.nz
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