Leo Sayer and Joe Camilleri were born on the same day in the same hemisphere 75 years ago. On May 21, 1948, Leo Sayer arrived in Shoreham-by-Sea in Sussex UK and Joe was born one time zone to the right in Malta the same day.
One of Australia s most loved and enduriing acts The Black Sorrows play the Brunswick Ballroom on Thursday 22nd April for a special sit down dinner and show performance.
The Black Sorrows spent a lot of 2019 touring Europe and Australia following the release of Joe Camilleri s 49th album, Citizen John, which debuted at #2 on the AIR Chart and #11 on the ARIA Album Chart in April 2019.
“Sometimes you hit a purple patch and you can do no wrong,” Joe says of the UK/Scandinavia leg of the tour, which found the Sorrows digging deep into the past as well as claiming new ground. “I know I ve gotta do ‘Harley & Rose’. I ve gotta do ‘Chained To The Wheel’. I ve gotta do ‘Hit & Run’ or ‘Shape I m In’ - and I do. I do those songs in a really heartfelt kind of way,” he says. “But some of the songs on Citizen John are really hitting home in the live environment. ‘Wednesday s Child’, ‘Silvio’ and ‘Worlds Away’ are working really well and the band loves playi