Radio Australia Today Editorial

The Joy of Loud Music

28 March 2008

This morning we played AC/DC on the program. Good, loud 1970′s rock.We love music here at the Breakfast Club. Every Wednesday we count down the Club’s Top Ten of Australian music, and often this new music makes our charts before they go national.And our chart is the first time that many of these artists get their music heard outside of Australia.When we get them in the studio for a chat, they get thrilled to get your emails from Phnom Penh, China and Moresby. You can just hear them telling their mums: “Hey, I’ve got fans overseas. And you told me nobody will ever hear of me.”We also go live with music too.Yesterday we had Brandi Carlisle on the program. She’s an American singer of great soul and feistiness. She brought with a pair of twins who are her backing group. They all brought their guitars, and belted out a couple of numbers for us. Man did they lift the roof.Brandi’s bass player, Phil, who’s on the far left of the photo is an amazing guy. While he was singing, he managed to doodle at the same time.What a multitalent!The very loud Brandi reminds me of the time we had Glenn Hughes from Deep Purple (he sang on the huge albums Burn, Stormbringer and Come Taste the Band). Glenn said he’d be doing the Moody Blues hit Nights in White Satin, which I thought was a pretty soft ballad, but he REALLY raised the roof. I believe you could’ve heard him from China, even without the microphone. Poor Geraldine Coutts from our sister program Pacific Beat was trying to conduct an interview in the next studio and could barely hear the interviewee.And what makes it even worse is that this superstar from the 1970′s looks as good as he does, while I look like garbage in comparison.The Breakfast Club. Always raising the roof.