Still thinking of somewhere worthy of your presence this New Years Eve? Well! Why not head to The Royal Hotel in Springwood to rock in the New Year with friends, great food, drinks and The Usual Suspects! Should Auld Suspects be forgot? Hell no! We would love to see you there....!
All of us here in Camp Suspect wish you all a wonderful, happy and healthy Christmas...we have one gig left this year and a massive start to 2012.
Whilst on our trek and return from the Hunter Valley this weekend the Kluger was abuzz with what 2012 may bring to The Usual Suspects, and we have some great ideas planned so stay tuned.
Many many thanks and Christmas tidings to the Honarary Suspects that jumped in, often at short notice, to ensure that the show went on...Richard Kenna for pitching in on a couple of away games and amazing us with what you came up with in such a short time. For your great humour and awesome playing and showmanship. To Dave Barnes for pitch hitting when required and for providing deep rich and tonal awesomeness, and for sharing a scotch or two. And of course...Simply Dan, for providing the band with edge, rock, laughter and deeper knee bends than anyone anywhere, time after time...travelling and playing with you is always a ride...
To the venue owners/managers and agents for booking and (always) rebooking us. And for allowing us to make a little bit of money doing what we love doing.
To our families and loved ones for putting up with the weekends without us and listening to us relay the highlights through tired voices and red eyes.
To the Suspects themselves...what a year...it's a gas gas gas...love youse all
And to you, the audiences, particularly those that made trips to see us and who come along regularly to support and encourage us...without you there would be no band...
Have a great break and we will see you at The Royal Hotel, Springwood to see away 2011...
Dave, Paul, Steve and Rod
xx
Here we are again, right in the thick of it! Christmas and all its silliness, crowds, shopping, fun, expense, food and more silliness! People are going nuts for the thing! Ah well, its what makes life interesting, right?
With the season comes 
the gigs! We have been playing quite a few corporate functions over the last couple of weeks, ranging from comparitively sedate, low-key affairs, right up to a 300 strong room full of very excited accountants! I'm not making it up, huge gig Friday where the patrons were feeling very fiscal and festive! I've just added another 6 gigs to the calendar, including a return to our friends out west in V8 Mountain country. The Family Hotel in Bathurst is an old haunt of ours, so I was pleased to get the email from Dave saying we had picked up some shows for '12 out there.
This weekend we once more hook up the trailer and head to the beautiful Hunter Valley region for Saturday night at Harrigans Irish Pub at Pokolbin. Ive said it before; its a tough job, but we are hardened to the task! If there is a call of duty to drive through lush Australian landscape, drink tasty wine, eat steak and wedges, and do what we love to do, then we have answered it! This is one of our favourite venues, so make an evening of it and come and see the band...drink the wine, eat the food, enjoy the atmosphere...some one has to do it!
We have just added another 20 dates, yes I double counted, 20 dates to the Suspects Calendar! We are booked solid till the end of March, 2012! All the faves are there, Harrigans, The Royal, The Ori and some of our newbies, The Kent and The Overlander...So the word is getting around faster then we are! That means the venues want us because you guys want us to play for you. So don't let a good thing go, continue to support live music in our venues and come and see The Usual Suspects play live, in a venue near YOU!
This Saturday 26th November is part two of the double-shot of Suspects. We play live Again at The Oriental Hotel, Springwood, 2nd Saturday in a row. This is unusual for us, I personally haven't experienced this as yet, so we're hoping for an even better turn out this week to come and enjoy the music. Last Saturday was a great night, truly an enjoyable evening for both us and the crowd that attended. We go on around 8.30, so if you so choose you turn up earlier and have a drink at the large bar area or enjoy a delicious feed at the top-quality bistro. We had dinner before the gig, I enjoyed a "Sexy Salad" , one of the many very enjoyable meals on the menu, and, lets face it, the one with the most rock n roll name.
So we highly recommend coming out this Saturday night, have a refreshing drink, eat a tasty meal and listen to a cool band playing great music!
Don't forget to click, hold and drag to pan around the room on the image below...
Rod J