http://www.portstephensexaminer.com.au/story/3529016/australia-for-anniversary-tour-animals/?cs=2330The Animals and Friends to tour to Wests New Lambton
FOR the first time in 13 years and for their 50th anniversary tour, The Animals and Friends will return to Australian shores in the new year.
Mickey Gallagher and John Steel, founding members of The Animals, along with friends Pete Barton and Danny Handley will tour to Wests New Lambton on February 24, 2016.
The Animal and Friends live shows will feature the British band’s greatest hits including House of the Rising Sun, It’s My Life, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood and Don’t Bring Me Down.
“Though the band has changed, they ensure that the nostalgic element comes with an enjoyably abrasive edge,” said Barry Kirk from the Romford Recorder publication in the UK.
“The band that shook the world back in 1964 have re-invented themselves.”
The Animals were one of the most important British bands of the 1960s.
The group, formed in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in the United Kingdom, is widely considered the raunchiest, dirtiest, and the most authentic and uncompromisingly raw band of their time.
The Animals' career took off in January 1964. With the release of House of the Rising Sun later that year, The Animals became the first British group after the Beatles to chart a number one single in the US.
Their brooding arrangement of House of the Rising Sun – a traditional folk song recorded by Josh White and Bob Dylan – became an early milestone in the British invasion of the US.
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House of the Rising Sun topped the American and British charts. The song stayed at number one in the US for three weeks - longer than any single since the Beatles' Can't Buy Me Love held down the top spot a half-year earlier.
The Animals followed House of the Rising Sun with seven more massive hits, at least four of which – Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, We Gotta Get out of This Place, It's My Life and Don't Bring Me Down – remain classics of the era.
Tickets to the Wests New Lambton show, available from westsnewcastle.com.au, cost $40 for club members and $45 for non-members.
The Examiner has a double pass to give away to the show, which starts at 8pm.
To win, send your name and contact details in an email titled “Animals” to
ewatts@fairfaxmedia.com.au.
The winner will be notified by 5pm on Wednesday, February 10.
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