Entertainment
28 October, 2024
Saturday Night Fever in city
YOU should be dancing with the arrival of ‘Best of the Bee Gees Saturday Night Fever’ show at CPAC with the trio’s best hits and a much-needed journey through the ‘Saturday Night Fever’ album on November 2.
In a two-act performance, the Best of the Bee Gees opens with the greatest hits spanning the decades, followed by a high-energy second act with the songs from Saturday Night Fever which defined the disco era.
With over 20 years of experience, the three-piece tribute band is set to get the Cairns audience on their feet, showing off their best disco moves to classics like ‘Night Fever’, ‘Jive Talkin’, ‘Stayin’ Alive’, ‘More Than A Woman’, ‘Emotion’, ‘Warm Ride’, ‘If I Can’t Have You’, ‘How Deep is Your Love’ and more.
“This show is a celebration of the ‘Saturday Night Fever’ album that came out in the late 70s, but it’s not just that,” said Evan Webster, who plays Barry Gibb in the Best of the Bee Gees.
“We’ll have two sets. The first set is a collection of the greatest hits of songs they wrote and recorded themselves and also have been recorded by other artists and the second set is all of the hits of ‘Saturday Night Fever’, including two songs that they didn’t record which were heavily featured in the album.
“These songs are ‘Boogie Shoes’ by KC & The Sunshine Band and ‘Disco Inferno’ by The Trammps.
“We also have a female vocalist who tours with us – Roslyn Loxton – and she sings all the songs the Bee Gees wrote for other female vocalists like Diana Ross, Dolly Parton and others.
“We also have Colin Petersen with us. He was the original Bee Gees drummer on the first five albums, so it’s a very vibrant show with lots of different elements from the last we did which was more classic. This is more dancey, more upbeat.”
Mr Webster said they were looking forward to singing ‘Disco Inferno’ and ‘Boogie Shoes’.
“Because we’ve been playing Bee Gees music for so long, it’s fun to be playing songs written by other artists,” he said.
“These are songs that we wouldn’t generally do but it’s quite fun for us.
“And we’re excited to play the whole Saturday Night Fever album because it’s just exciting non-stop.
“Most people remember or have bought this album and this show will take them back to those days when they were in high school or that era of disco which was so much fun.”
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