Estelle Clifford: Sir Dave Dobbyn's one off show at Auckland Town Hall

One of New Zealand’s most treasured musical acts, Sir Dave Dobbyn, will perform at Auckland Town Hall, the first time he has hit the stage there solo.

The 68-year-old has previously performed at the prestigious venue with his band Th’ Dudes, but has never showcased his own set. That will change on June 4, when he and his touring band look to cover songs from his 45-year recording career.

Announced as part of the Auckland Winter Concert Series lineup, Dobbyn and his band will perform everything from his celebrated anthems to “an extraordinary catalogue of deeper cuts”.

Estelle Clifford joined Jack Tame to discuss the event.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
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Speaker 3 (00:30):
Oh calm, you don't need me to tell you who
this is.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Sir Dave Down, of course, has announced he's going to
be playing a one off show with his band at
Auckland's Town Hall and just over a month. You're happening
very soon actually as part of the part of the
Winter series, and he's promising to go into his back
catalog to find out some old favorites of his alongside
all the anthems such as Loyal our music of via

(01:06):
ste Clifford is here with us this morning? Hey is
Stelle embracing the Dave Rave?

Speaker 4 (01:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Oh I love that. Yeah, No, I know it is great.
It's fantastic news.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
As And I'm like, he's called it selected songs for
this gig and I'm like, how yeah, you even go
through his catalog. But if Loyal isn't on there, I
mean that's an absolute crowd pleaser.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
I feel like it's going to be on there. I
feel like I might be on there as well. I
think he's going to mix things up, right, He's going
to do the bad catalog stuff, but as well as
some of the anthems yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yeah, and and town hall. He's never played in the
town hall before. It is also the thing where you're like,
he's played outside it, yeah, helps stir up riots and
it's true being inside.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
So yeah, yeah, well yeah, there has there has been
some debate this morning. So so one of our listeners
freakings that Dave might have played a song there as
part of like the the Orpaan City mission and knowing
only five or something like that. Anyway, I'm sure they've
been inside the building before. It's not like he's been
a Spanish but anyway, yeah, yeah, comes off his So.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
That was released in eighty eight. That was off the
album of the same name, Loyal, which was actually his
debut solo album, even though he'd been in music for
over a decade by that stage. Because remember the back
catalog that kind of is his, but also some other
people's is. Originally he was in the.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Dudes, yeah of course, and then he was.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
As yeah yeah, and then some of those songs are
quite still synonymous with him, I think, you know, because
he's then performed them as a solo artist. So he
had a huge Bacadal log before it even started doing
his own material, but Love You Like I Should was
on that Loyal album Huge, and those were the ones
that were really getting him on the music charts too,

(02:46):
so Slice a Heaven of course, from a Dog's Tail,
Foot Rot Flats, those were like in the charts for
weeks and weeks and weeks weeks. He was one of
those artists where he had three top ten songs on
the New Zealand charts Wow for a period of time
in the late eighties, so he was kind of like
everywhere a doing his own thing. I went on a

(03:07):
real I went back onto one of my absolute favorite
album albums of his, which is Twist. Okay, so that
was like mid nineties. He actually wrote some of those
songs alongside Neil Finn. Yes, and I'm pretty sure he's
mentioned it a few times before that that was a
real good game changer for him and helping make what

(03:27):
that album was that I'm just gonna put it out
there that I actually, now that I've re listened to Twist,
I actually think that's one of my all time favorite albums. Really,
not just not just Dave do In albums, just such
a great album Emma Puckey was one of the guest
vocalists on that. She did heats of the harmonies for him,

(03:49):
and she's just their voices just go together so beautifully.
But I think his voice was really good on that album.
His writing and his lyrics are just so good. Naked
Flame dawned on Me and then this one which everybody
knows language.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
I'll just play this for a little bit, just just
for a few Yeah, when I needed.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
You goodn't save.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Time.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
So it's a classic.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
It is such a classic. It's called a moving song
that day, and.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
That whole album is actually if you if you sit
with that, like if you want an album this weekend
to really just blast loud and sit with the lyrics. Yeah,
Twist as a fantastic album for that any Crummer of
course a diversion. He then did that tour like a
year or so later, maybe it was a couple of
years later where he had Bit wrong A and Tim
Fern on the road.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Do you know that was my first ever live show?

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (04:49):
It was? Yep, Together in concert live was my first
even live show. I was thirteen. Yeah, I think I
got tickets for my birthday. I think my parents got
me tickets for my birthday with my dad.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah, they're like, Jack, you need to play guitar and
on your skills.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, pretty much.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
So, I mean even just collabs like that, and then
the albums that have come out from him that this
is a huge catalog for him to go back into,
and just so many that actually when you hear again,
like they might not be the ones that got the
main mainstream play, but there's those songs that you're like,
that's right, because you can sit with the whole album
of Dave's quite easily, you know, just really enjoy it.
And then people have taken and done their own versions

(05:27):
of those albums. So yeah, I can't even imagine how
he's putting the set list together, but I think it's Yeah.
Also on their album Welcome Home, I oh, yeah, album
on the on the tour surely has to be the show.
He might do it in the Mary Yeah, yeah, he
might do that as well. If youre want to jump
forward to it. I need to have some twist stuff.

(05:49):
I need to have some foot rock flats music play.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah, I think that'll be there. I feeltic you'll be
satisfied in the Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
Pre sales right now. So Live Nation pre sales are
on until Monday and then around eleven am on Monday
mornings when general ticket sales go on. I know this
because it's on the Auckland's town Hall. But it is
worth catching up with your best daies in Auckland for sure.
A weekend, Yeah, make this.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
It's not a weekend. It's a midweek concert, I think, right.
So it's on the Wednesday, Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's curious Wednesday. Yeah, Friday. Okay,
so tickets general tickets, So pre sales are now Monday
tickets gone south for everyone, and it's for June fourth,
which is a Wednesday. It is definitely going to sell out.
Yeah yeah, yeah, you'd be lucky if there are any
tickets left by Monday. I reckon, Hey, thank you.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
So much to Stelle.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
You get a rigg along and yeah, I think I
think if he's struggling to whittle down the list, then
maybe he can employ you for your advice on that front,
because I reckon, you get the blend just right. The
Steale Clifford, our music reviewer, will pick out a good
Dave song and play it for you in a couple
of minutes. As we continue The Dave Dobbin Rave This Morning.

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