WHETHER YOU’RE A BROTHER OR WHETHER YOU’RE A MOTHER, YOU’RE STAYIN’ ALIVE, STAYIN’ ALIVE, WITH THE AUSTRALIAN BEE GEES SHOW PLAYING AT THE ECHUCA PARAMOUNT ON AUGUST 9.
Australian Bee Gees Show founding member Michael Clift plays Barry Gibb in the show.
Luckily, he had some time before going on stage at the group’s Las Vegas residency to share details of the group’s visit to Echuca.
“We have been here (Las Vegas) for 13 years and been performing together for 28 years,” Michael said.
“We were doing our own music and not getting too far and there were a lot of tribute bands around Melbourne in the mid-90s, so we thought, let’s do something.
“Then we looked at what people weren’t doing and thought, ‘Why aren’t they doing the Bee Gees?’ because they are such a fantastic act, Australian, and all the songs are beautiful.”
After touring for five or six years, the tribute act started looking for United States-based agents, which led them to tour the US until they got the numbers to hold their own on the Las Vegas strip.
The Australian Bee Gees show performs from a modern perspective as if the group was still touring.
“We do the whole catalogue, not just the ’70s disco, we do a lot of ’60s, their ballads like To Love Somebody and I’ve Got to get a Message to You, we do all of those,” Michael said.
“And then songs from the late ’80s, early ’90s, right up into the early 2000s, just before Morris passed away.
“The show is two 50-minute sets in a theatre, and even that is not enough to fit in all of the popular songs, so we do some medleys, and in five minutes we might do 10 songs.
“For anyone thinking of coming, definitely come along, it is a good show, a Las Vegas show.”
The Australian Bee Gees Show, Echuca Paramount Cinema, Friday, August 9. Tickets are available at the box office or online at https://echucaparamount.com/movie/the-australian-bee-gees-show