Upcoming Gigs Select Month January 2020 Ian Bland Date City Venue 24/01/20 - 27/01/20 Newstead, VIC Newstead Festival Add Add to Google Calendar Download iCal Time: 12:30pm. Admission: $130 (weekend). Age restrictions: All Ages/Licensed. Box office: (03 5476 2360).. Address: 9 Lyons Street. The Festival Ticket Hub will operate at the Newstead Community Centre from Friday 24 January 2020. Tickets Here More info @ Venue Website Subscribe: RSS | iCal Album and Book Now Available <a href=”http://music.ianbland.com.au/album/everything-and-nothing”>Everything And Nothing by Ian Bland</a> If you are in Melbourne both are available at Basement Discs Thanks for your support, it really is great to see you at the gigs. Occasional Updates here and on Facebook and Twitter. Recent Bland On Bland poems… Ian Bland & Greg Hunt @ Archies Creek Hotel on 14/12/19 Looking forward to this one. This is our “Almost True” show “An evening of storytelling in verse, prose and song with IAN BLAND with Greg Hunt on an assortment of stringed instruments” And @ The Archies Creek Hotel, a great new venue near to Kilcunda and Wonthaggi, its a country pub in the rolling green… Read More Ian Bland & The Lamington Drive Orchestra @ Lomond Hotel on 08/12/19 Read More Bland On Bland – Velvet The theme for this week’s JVG Radio Method poem is “Velvet“. Good theme this week. Jon had an unexpected moment of “linearity” and picked one that actually had a link to reality ( unlike some weeks). The band in this week was “Velvet Bloom”, so a nice simple choice. We spent a good amount of… Read More Bland On Bland – Rare Things The theme for this week’s JVG Radio Method poem is “Rare Things“. Not sure what prompted the theme this week. Possibly the fact that Dan Warner had been doing Warner Corner on the show for 20 years and Jon wanted to somehow celebrate the rarity of that or Jon was just being perverse as usual.… Read More Bland On Bland – Closing your eyes The theme for this week’s JVG Radio Method poem is “Closing your eyes“. Well, this is JVG really rolling the obscure theme dice again this week. Some times you have to wonder where he comes up with them. But it does make you dig deep for an idea. Well normally it would, but I had… Read More Bland On Bland – Protest The theme for this week’s JVG Radio Method poem is “Protest“. A great theme this week, jvg AND i discussed the long history of protest music and the recent resurgence of songs that are challenging the existing structures. One of those topics worth revisiting again Ed Bates provided the guitar backing, have a listen to… Read More
Ian Bland & Greg Hunt @ Archies Creek Hotel on 14/12/19 Looking forward to this one. This is our “Almost True” show “An evening of storytelling in verse, prose and song with IAN BLAND with Greg Hunt on an assortment of stringed instruments” And @ The Archies Creek Hotel, a great new venue near to Kilcunda and Wonthaggi, its a country pub in the rolling green… Read More
Bland On Bland – Velvet The theme for this week’s JVG Radio Method poem is “Velvet“. Good theme this week. Jon had an unexpected moment of “linearity” and picked one that actually had a link to reality ( unlike some weeks). The band in this week was “Velvet Bloom”, so a nice simple choice. We spent a good amount of… Read More
Bland On Bland – Rare Things The theme for this week’s JVG Radio Method poem is “Rare Things“. Not sure what prompted the theme this week. Possibly the fact that Dan Warner had been doing Warner Corner on the show for 20 years and Jon wanted to somehow celebrate the rarity of that or Jon was just being perverse as usual.… Read More
Bland On Bland – Closing your eyes The theme for this week’s JVG Radio Method poem is “Closing your eyes“. Well, this is JVG really rolling the obscure theme dice again this week. Some times you have to wonder where he comes up with them. But it does make you dig deep for an idea. Well normally it would, but I had… Read More
Bland On Bland – Protest The theme for this week’s JVG Radio Method poem is “Protest“. A great theme this week, jvg AND i discussed the long history of protest music and the recent resurgence of songs that are challenging the existing structures. One of those topics worth revisiting again Ed Bates provided the guitar backing, have a listen to… Read More