DARYL BRAITHWAITE

There’s never a dull moment when Daryl and his band take the stage. In a distinguished career spanning over 30 years, Daryl Braithwaite is one of Australia’s award winning premier performers and we’re so pleased to have him back at the Saucer for the first time in 2015. With very special guests: THE PARDONERS (feat. SAM SEE [Sherbet, John Farnham, Stockley See & Mason] & GLYN MASON [Chain, Richard Clapton, Stockley See & Mason).

Daryl Braithwaite’s initial success as a singer came with Sherbet, a band which forever remains in the history books of Australian music. Throughout the 70’s, Sherbet produced 20 national Top 40 singles and were the first Australian band to top the one million dollar mark in album sales in the country with a total of 15 albums and 30 singles to the credit with songs like “Summer Love” becoming the highest selling single of 1975. And, “Howzat” not only a #1 hit in Australia, but also achieved #2 in England.

Following the success of Sherbet, Daryl returned to the Australian music scene in a very big way as a solo performer in 1988 with the release of the phenomenally successful album “Edge” which spent well over a year in the national charts. Spawning hits such as “As The Days Go By” & “All I Do”, the gold single “One Summer”. The album itself topped the ARIA charts in 1989 and became the highest selling CD in CBS Australia’s history.  The Flying Saucer Club is very pleased to have Daryl on board.

 

About The Pardoners

‘History says this has to be good’ – Pete Best

The Pardoners are Glyn Mason and Sam See. They have been stalwarts of the Australian music scene for a helluva long time. Bands they have contributed to include The Rebels, Sherbet, Chain, Copperwine, Flying Circus, Fraternity, Ariel, Home, Goanna, John Farnham, and, of course, Stockley, See and Mason.

As we recall it, in the Middle Ages Pardoners were licensed by the church to sell Papal Indulgences to the faithful. These indulgences were supposed to expiate the sins of the faithful. The irony was the Pardoners were often committing the same sins, by the bucketload, they were supposed to be pardoning.

They released ‘Live From The Vault’ as Sam See and Glyn Mason, recorded before a select audience at Sound Vault’s studio in January, 2004. It showed off their live repertoire of 2004-5, which consisted largely of covers of favourite songs given a unique, tenderised and marinated, Pardonerised treatment. (No MSG was used in the making of that recording)

“There are no rough edges here, simply a ton of finesse. Damn if it don’t sound like a good time.” Shane Nichols, Australian Financial Review

The pair adopted the Pardoners as their brand when they released their first critically-acclaimed album of original songs in 2007.

Now, the Pardoners are back with 12 great new songs on their new CD, “Indulgences”. The themes of “Indulgences” cover a raft of human experience in modern Australia, from loss to salvation, from bushfires to the canola fields, from personal accountability to life lived on the Internet.

More info: http://www.pardoners.com.au