By TANIA PHILLIPS
KEVIN Bloody Wilson is retiring – well eventually.
“I’m having the first of my final farewell tours,” he joked from his house in WA.
“Let’s see if I can rival John Farnham.”
This tour brings him not only back to Tweed but back to Twin Towns “it’s my spiritual home and it’s been a while.”
“I think it’s five or six years since I’ve played there,” he said.
And of course while he’s bringing all his old favourite songs, Kevin is not someone who stands on his merits.
“I wrote a new song the other night!” he said.
“A mate came over and we were talking and from something he said I got a new idea.”
Ideas come from everywhere – everyday conversations, his wife’s love of playing hockey–she still represents WA in the Veterans Titles.
And a Kevin Bloody Wilson Show is not just a concert performance, for most, it’s a full-on event and an opportunity to tick from your bucket-list a chance to see one of Australia’s most unique international comedy legend.
His recently released biography ‘DILLIGAF, The Life And Rhymes Of Kevin Bloody Wilson’ is a raucous, earthy, in depth look at perhaps one of the only Australian comedians who has not bowed to the pressures of political correctness.
He’s been listed in Who’s Who, his entire body of work has been preserved for future generations with the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra and his fan base stretches from Broken Hill to Buckingham Palace.
His record sales are now nudging the four million mark. Without traditional media support, all of Kevin Bloody Wilson’s albums and DVDs have achieved Gold Sales status globally, with many reaching Platinum, and one, ‘Kev’s Back’, awarded an amazing quadruple Platinum.
Kev’s recordings can be found in such diverse locations as Outback Australia to Antarctica. From Big-Rig road trains to the console of Prince Charles’ Aston Martin.
It seems ironic that 25 years ago, Kevin Bloody Wilson was being arrested for performing his songs in public, yet on Australia Day in January 2010, he was officially nominated for Australian Of The Year for doing exactly the same thing.
Who: Kevin Bloody Wilson
Where: Twin Towns Services club
When: Saturday, 6 July
Interested?:TWEED HEADS – Bookings: 1800 014 014
