The Pinks and Big Erle at The Bombie

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The Bombie Presents The Pinks and Big Erle @ Stanwell Park CWA Hall

You can tell they don’t take themselves too seriously just from the name: the Pinks. It’s a cute sidestep around the dodgy old argument about whether white boys could play the blues. It is also what seven of Australia’s top rock, jazz, blues and country musicians do when they just want to have fun.

Assembled by the acclaimed jazz bassist Jonathan Zwartz the Pinks bring together singer/guitarist brothers Reg Mombassa and Peter O’Doherty (of Dog Trumpet, Mental As Anything and painting fame) and drummer Rob Souter (Slim Dusty, Dynamic Hepnotics).

Singer/harmonica player Robert Susz (Continental Blues Party, Mighty Reapers, Dynamic Hepnotics) and guitarist Doug Nairn add blues cred, and Brendan Gallagher (Karma County) completes the four-singer, four-guitar line-up.

Souter is a prized asset, his career stretching back to a 1960s band with harmonica-player-turned-actor Gary McDonald. After periods in Melbourne and Canberra he became a Dynamic Hepnotic (playing on their 1984 hit Soul Kind of Feeling), before 15 years with Slim Dusty and seven with Mental As Anything. Now he relishes being half of a groovy rhythm section with Zwartz.