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By MATTHEW MCKEW
A one-off themed gig in Glenorchy’s become a bulletproof idea for a national tour.
This weekend, Dunedin rockers Silas Waring (vocals), Paul Southworth (double bass) and Alex Ramsay (drums) will bring their Dead Rockers Ball back to the Whakatipu, playing in Arrowtown.
‘‘It’s pretty funny when you see a couple of Freddie Mercurys running around, not something you see every day,’’ Southworth says.
Dressing-up’s not compulsory, but something that happened spontaneously at the first ball and now’s being encouraged by the band, Bulletproof Convertible.
The theme came from a song they’d been working on for a while called
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