what: The Black Sorrows
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when: Thursday, 8pm, presale $28, door $35
where: Laurieton United Services Club
AFTER 30 years and 17 albums The Black Sorrows released Certified Blue in April and are taking it on the road.
The band will drop into Laurieton United Services Club on Thursday to give people of the Hastings and Camden Haven a treat.
Expect to hear new tracks from the critically acclaimed album and of course, some of the classics that we have all come to know and love.
The Black Sorrows current line-up is Mark Gray - bass/vocals; Claude Carranza - guitar/vocals; Angus Burchall - drums, John McAll - keyboards/vocals and Joe Camilleri - vocals/guitar/sax.
Sydney Morning Herald reviewer Bernard Zuel gives Certified Blue four stars saying: "Bits of soul, bits of rock, bits of country bits of gospel, bits of?I could go on, but you get the point. The point is, it's just like one perfect party here".
Joe Camileri's late teens and early 20s saw him bounce from band to band until he became lead singer of The Falcons.
The band's first album Don't Waste It wasn't very successful because, Camileri says, they couldn't capture their live performance energy on record.
But in 1979, with the release of Screaming Targets, which spawned hits Shape I'm In and Hit and Run, the band had a smash on its hands.
After a US tour though, Camileri called it quits and walked away from music.
The Black Sorrows was born later from a collaboration in a café in Melbourne.
Again success came after a struggle but with hits like Harley & Rose, Chained to the Wheel, Never Let Me Go and Snake Skin Shoes, the band played on.
And they are still doing it.