AUSTRALIAN singer Jeff Duff will bring his acclaimed Walk On The Wild Side show to Albury next month.
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The show features a unique musical spin on the songs of Lou Reed with some Iggy Pop thrown in for good measure.
It's a gutsy and powerful night of the music of Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground, ground-breaking sounds that evolved from Andy Warhol's famed Factory in New York during the creative madness of the sixties and seventies.
Reed & The Velvet Underground produced the trailblazing sounds that changed the nature of popular music forever.
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A singer and cabaret performer in the tenor range, Duff began his musical career in Melbourne in 1971 as lead singer of jazz-rock fusion band Kush (1971-75).
He moved to London in 1978 as the "waif-like androgynous oddball Duffo".
Duff's own version and video clip for Walk On The Wildside was an international hit for him in the mid-1980s and rated by Lou Reed, himself, as the best of many cover versions of the original song.
As part of his tour, Duff and the Coney Island Babies - featuring John Encarnacao, Bill Gibson, Tim Byron and Jess Ciampa - salute Lou Reed with a performance of the whole Transformer album plus a raunchy set of Lou Reed/ Velvet Underground classics with some extra tunes from "Godfather of punk" Iggy Pop.
Duff is also booked to play at the Sydney Opera House in June with his Ziggy project.
THE LOWDOWN
WHAT: Walk On The Wild Side
WHEN: SS&A Club Albury, Friday, May 10, 9pm
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