I am not a Kasey Chambers fan, and I don’t really keep that a secret. However, I have to commend her on her touring schedule. She always visits small towns right around Australia, and she is soon to come to my home town of Taree, where she has been before. In our local paper the “Manning River Times”, on the 9th – 10th of May, there is a little write up about her upcoming Acoustic Tour.
The article begins by stating how she has sold over a million albums, which actually surprises me a little. I did know her fan base was large but I didn’t realise it was to this extent. This particular tour will be an intimate acoustic set, in a very stripped back and plain style and she will be playing at the “Manning Entertainment Centre” on Thursday the 12th of June.
This upcoming tour comes after an 18 month break from touring so she could give birth the her child Arlo. In her touring break she has also been writing her first collaboration album titled “Rattlin Bones” which is a more ‘country roots’ album.
In her show, she will not only be paying songs from her new album, but she will also be playing the best of her past songs from her previous four multi-platinum albums, however the concert will be all acoustic so the songs will be a little more toned down then usual.
Personally, I will not be attending the concert, but I do hear that she puts on a good show. I don’t know what it is about Kasey Chambers that I don’t like, but there is just something about her voice that drives me insane, especially with the song “I’m Not Pretty Enough”. in saying that though I do respect her. She has a great following and she is a popular artist and she would not still be around if there wasn’t something about her that helped to draw in the fans. So what ever she’s doing to keep her audience, I say keep it up.
By Jacki Tipton
Although she has sold many, many records I think the reason she plays at small towns is because that is where the majority of her fan base is. If she were to put on a couple of big shows, say in the entertainment centre at Sydney and Newcastle, I don’t think as many people would travel and she wouldn’t fill the seats. It probably works better for her to do lots of smaller venues.