Former Hard-Ons Peter ‘Blackie’ Black To Play Shows In Victoria and Queensland - Noise11.com
Peter Black photo by Alec Smart

Peter Black photo by Alec Smart

Former Hard-Ons Peter ‘Blackie’ Black To Play Shows In Victoria and Queensland

by Paul Cashmere on January 5, 2021

in News

Peter ‘Blackie’ Black of The Hard-Ons has lined up solo shows in Victoria and Queensland over coming months.

Blackie has two new albums “If This Is The Hand I’m Dealt” and “I’m Gonna Cheat As Much As I Can”. He says, “My biggest hero is probably Paul McCartney,” says Peter. “That guy does it all and his sense of melody and experimentation in the form is wild. I love the 60’s a lot. I love Michael Brown’s writing in all his bands the Stories, Left Banke etc … And all the classic power pop – Raspberries, you name it… In many ways I don’t see what I do solo as that different as its still POP but wanted to present it in a much more gentle fashion / format. I was given an acoustic at a party eons ago – “you’re a guitarist, play something” – and cause I only knew power chords I thought “man I know so little of what this instrument can do, I can’t make this thing sound any good!”. That was a big thing that got me on the path .. Also, seeing someone like Brian Wilson play “Surfs Up” on the piano or Paul play “Black Bird”; realising that just one voice and one instrument can be so powerful if the song is THAT good; that made me wanna try as well…”

Peter Black Dates

Victoria
Thursday 21st January – Barwon Club, Geelong w/ Jace Rogers (Dead)
Friday 22nd January – The Taproom, Castlemaine – 2 sets
Saturday 23rd January – The Tote (upstairs) w/ Raul Sanchez (Magic Dirt, River of Snakes, Midnight Woolf)
Sunday 24th January – The Eastern, Ballarat w/ Jace Rogers (Dead)

Queensland
Feb 19th February – Punk Fest Presents… at the Zoo (with Fat, General Waste and The Fred Band)

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