Greg Poppleton at a 1920s Corporate PartyGreg Poppleton played for a 1920s theme corporate party in the Django Bar of the Camelot Lounge.
In the band, lead by Greg Poppleton, Sydney’s only authentic 1920s – 1930s singer, were Geoff Power (sousaphone and trumpet) David Horniblow (tenor sax and clarinet) Grahame Conlon (banjo) and Lawrie Thompson (drums and washboard) – all world-touring, vintage jazz musicians – they really know their stuff!
The photos were taken by the wonderful Anton from ArtOf2 Design, Tel 0431 936 926, info@artof2.com. Thank you, Anton!
Greg Poppleton at a 1920s theme Corporate Party. (L-R) David Horniblow (tenor sax, clarinet) Geoff Power (trumpet, sousaphone) Grahame Conlon (tenor banjo) Lawrie Thompson (drums, washboard)The band stand before the showComrade workers tap toes and take film of comrade musicians in a socialist realist demonstration of cultural solidarity
How about having Sydney’s only authentic 1920s singer, Greg Poppleton, and his band of world-touring, vintage jazz musicians at your corporate event, wedding and party. Talk to Tony at OzManagement. Tony can also provide you with sound, lights, staging and dancers
And here’s a couple of grainy pics I took myself. Grainy pic 1Grainy Pic 2
Greg Poppleton is available for your 1920s – 1930s party from OzManagement. Call Tony Jex, 61 2 9567 7171
To book Greg Poppleton, call Tony Jex at OzManagement on 61 2 9567 7171 or email Tony at Tony at OzManagement. Tony can also provide you with sound, lights, staging and dancers
Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters, 1920s trio, helped raise funds for cancer research and patient support at Castle Mall, Castle Hill NSW for Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea
Held every year at Castle Mall, centre management hailed this year’s event as the best and most successful ever. With Greg Poppleton in the Bakelite Trio for this event were Chuck Morgan, banjo and uke, and Richard Booth, bass and soprano sax. James and Shivaun from the Sydney SwingKatz dance team swing danced to the band
Greg Poppleton and the bakelite Broadcasters played at Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea on Thursday 30 May for Australia’s biggest Morning Tea, raising money for cancer research and support servicesGreg Poppleton singing Tip Toe Through The Tulips for Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea
Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters at Castle Mall. In picture: Chuck Morgan (banjo & uke) Richard Booth (soprano and bass saxes). Dancers: SwingKatzGreg Poppleton singing the songs of the 1920s in the Bakelite Broadcasters at Castle Mall. In picture: Greg Poppleton (mic) Chuck Morgan (banjo & uke) Richard Booth (soprano and bass saxes). Dancers: SwingKatz
To have Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters at your event, please visit the band’s official website www.bakelitejazz.com Richard Booth, soprano and baritone sax cracks a smile
While it was a cold, stormy night outside, inside the atmosphere was warm and cosy.
Geoff Power is the trumpet and sousaphone player and Grahame Conlon plays banjo in the 1920s Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters 1920s Speakeasy Trio.
Greg Poppleton, as in the band name, is Sydney’s only authentic 1920s – 1930s singer. Together, Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters are a trio – sextet of world-touring vintage musicians specialising in the swing and jazz of the 1920s and 1930s. We play for clubs, bars, weddings, corporate events and all kinds of celebrations.
Django Bar 1920s Jazz by Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite BroadcastersGreg Poppleton 1920s singer with Grahame Conlon banjo and Geoff Power sousaphone, trumpet – specialise in jazz and swing from the 1920s – 1930s for all occasions, festivals and venuesGeoff Power Jazz Trumpet solo with greg Poppleton and the bakelite Broadcasters in the Django Bar of the Camelot Lounge
Last Saturday, Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters, played their authentic Roaring 20s speakeasy jazz for the 1920s Ozwac Gala Ball, raising money for this venerable charity.
What is Ozwac? Ozwac, the Australian Women and Children’s Research Foundation, is a charity that raises and grants money for research in western Sydney. It works within the University of Sydney Clinical School at Nepean. The research is essential to improve clinical care for mothers and babies. In general, such research is poorly funded in Australia.
In Greg Poppleton and the Broadcasters for the 1920s gala where Greg Poppleton 1920s singer, Geoff Power trumpet and sousaphone, Chuck Morgan banjo and ukeleles, and Adam Barnard drums. Film and TV personalities Roy Billing and Tara Dennis were also at the Ball, sharing their tremendous talents for the cause.
$42 000 was raised.
One of the organisers of the successful 1920s themed Fundraising Ball (which was held in the Evans Theatre of Penrith Panthers) took some happy snaps of Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters on stage for you. We hope you enjoy them. (Thank you, Kane)Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters at the Ozwac 1920s Gala Ball, Penrith Panthers
Now, if you’re looking for a real 1920s trio to sextet or even orchestra for your event, lead by Sydney’s only authentic 1920s singer (classically trained) and filled with world-touring vintage jazz and swing specialists, check out the band’s official website and get in touch via the contact page
Do come to the Django Bar of the Camelot Lounge on Thursday 23 May for a night of toe-tappin’ 20’s croonin’ with Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters. With Geoff Power trumpet and sousaphone and Grahame Conlon tenor banjo. I’ll be singing. Please spread the word. Doors open at 6pm. Music at 8pm. Pizzas are the best in Sydney. Just whipped up a poster…
Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters in the Django Bar
The Django Bar is on the corner of Marrickville Road and Railway Parade opposite Sydenham Station
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Greg Poppleton is Sydney’s 1920s Speakeasy and 1930s Swing Trio – Sextet. We feature Sydney’s only authentic 1920s – 1930s singer, Greg Poppleton, and world-touring vintage swing jazz musicians.
Greg Poppleton is in demand for weddings, corporate functions, parties and historical occasions
The Hudson-AMC Car Club and Greg Poppleton were at the annual Fairfield Museum Fair. Thank you, Tony, for the pictures…
Greg Poppleton around the 1929 Essex Roadster. Greg Poppleton seated with megaphone, Geoff Power big silver sousaphone and trumpet, Paul Baker banjo, Adam Barnard drums and washboardGreg Poppleton – Sydney’s 1920s Speakeasy Trio – SextetThe 1929 Essex Roadster belonging to the Hudson-AMC Club of Australia
Here are a couple of pictures of a special Greg Poppleton line-up put together for last night’s Sunday Carnival in the Victoria Room, Darlinghurst.
Greg Poppleton, 1920s-30s singer at Sunday carnival in the Victoria Room, Darlinghurst
On piano was Monique Lysiak from the Siren’s Big Band. On the drums, Damon Poppleton, who is now ten. And that’s me, Greg Poppleton, singing in my fancy new duds and spurning the use of the microphone. (I’ve a big voice, anyway.) Photos are by Jimmy Vargas and, since I didn’t ask whether he wanted his name in this blog, the photo with Damon was kindly snapped by a long-time Phantom Dancer listener.
Damon Poppleton, drums, Monique Lysiak, piano, Greg Poppleton, vocals on St Louis Blues
And look, you can see in a sign on top of the piano in the background. I says, ‘CDs $20’. Well, on Bandcamp, the latest Greg Poppleton CD is $12, $7 digital download, $1 a track. Snap up a bargain.
It’s amazing the people you meet in the Victoria Room, including an early rock-n-roller (and his wonderful partner) who had drummed for Frankie Avalon, Fabian and Annette Funicello amongst others and is now part of the jazz scene in Sydney.
We hope to be back in the Victoria Room in the Spring.
Some good news today is that the 1920sGreg Poppleton (Trio), with Geoff Power on sousaphone and trumpet, is booked into the new Django Bar in the Camelot Lounge on Thursday evening, 23rd May.
We hope to see you in the Django Bar, opposite Sydenham Station, on Thursday 23 May!
Put this flyer onto your Facebook page and be at the 23 May Django Bar show to win the new CD by Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters
Here are some happy snaps for you of Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters at the 2013 Fairfield Museum fair, celebrating 30 years of the Fairfield Museum, Horsley Drive, Smithfield, with songs from the 1920s and 1930s
Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters at the Faifield Museum Open Day singing the songs of the 1920s
Greg Poppleton, singer in blue, with Geoff Power, sousaphone, and Paul Baker, banjo (Adam Barnard, drums, out of shot)
There’s also some pics of the band posing in a restored 1929 Essex 6 taken by the Hudson Car Club. I’ll post them as soon as I get them emailed to me
Swing dancers on the day at Fairfield: SwingKatz. Also on stage was a Spanish choir and Uruguayan drummers
The latest independent release by Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters is pure 1920s in flavour and available on Bandcamp
With the same maverick spirit that produced ‘The Phantom Dancer’ (the sold-out first CD and the award-winning, national community radio show), ‘Doin’ The Charleston’, is the long-awaited second album from Greg Poppleton & The Bakelite Broadcasters
Recorded live-in-studio in just 5 hours, ‘Doin’ The Charleston’, is the first document of Greg Poppleton & The Bakelite Broadcasters as a purely Roaring 20s Speakeasy 5-piece. There are more layers, more stylistic tangents than before, with a DNA recovered from the very bones of smoking, catchy, 1920s speakeasy pop. At the forefront is the undeniably authentic and unique Roaring 20s vocal style of Greg Poppleton
A pre-release spin of ‘Doin The Charleston’ at the 2012 Sydney Fringe Festival had swing dancers crowding the dance floor
Greg Poppleton is very proud of the results, “For me, ‘Doin’ The Charleston’, is all about the songs, how they line up, intertwine, switch partners and promenade home”
Greg has expanded his 3.5 octave sonic palette with a long list of influences to forge his own sound. Heir to a tradition of finely-crafted, dramatic, confessional music that explores the ups and downs of life and love with a keenly-observed honesty that touches all who hear, Greg Poppleton is backed by what really is an all-star speakeasy band of world-touring jazz musicians…
Paul Furniss weaves shimmering, infectious, toe-tapping anthems using soprano, alto, tenor saxophones and clarinet. Al Davey wails, growls and caresses on trumpet and trombone. He brings together the brightest elements and darkest undertones in a unique blend of unshackled two-beat. Grahame Conlon’s banjo demands attention weaving audacious fat chords around the pulsing, minimalist sousaphone loops of Rod Herbert and ARIA nominee Geoff Power and the chemically infused drum beats and bootleg hooch washboard laid down by Bell band legend, Lawrie Thompson
The quintet makes lullabies, lush dreamy vintage pop, and the powerful, bone-rattling immediacy of hot, danceable jazz. Vocal hooks are inescapable, lush productions uncannily authentic to the Roaring 20s, as sophisticated and pristine as anything on a 78 disc. ‘Doin’ The Charleston’s’ 14 tracks (including a bonus alternate take on the soaring St James Infirmary) trace a unique aesthetic universe that is fully-crafted and fully-realised, deftly walking the lines between joyous exhilaration and otherworldly rapture, pleasure-centre pop and total self-possession
It has been described as the Temperance Seven meets’ Don Byron’s Bug Music
Greg Poppleton & The Bakelite Broadcasters’ is a universe that invites exploration and demands revisiting. ‘Doin’ The Charleston’ is a journey from darkness to light, from anger to love, from chaos to order. Buy at Bandcamp, CD Baby and bakelitejazz.com
Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters Trio for a 30th Birthday at the ArtHouse
‘Doin’ The Charleston’ has been featured by Bob Rogers in a one hour special on the album over 2CH and the Macquarie Network, Sydney. It has also been CD of the Week on ArtSoundFM Canberra and Jazz Album of the Week on 5MBS Adelaide
Former jazz critic for The Australian newspaper, Kevin Jones, wrote about ‘Doin The Charleston’…
“Even in the 21st century, the music of the so-called jazz age (the Roaring Twenties) still holds a fascination for many, judging by the number of bands which play this style of music world-wide. The Bakelite Broadcasters, led by vocalist Greg Poppleton, keeps the 1920s’ flag flying in Sydney as this enjoyable disc, the second by the group, shows.
They are mostly pre-Swing Era songs written before Benny Goodman launched jazz’s most popular years at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles on August 21, 1935 ranging from Paul Dresser’s My Gal Sal (1907) to Fats Wallers’ I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Lettter (1935) and include The Charleston (1923) and Sweet Lorraine and Button Up Your Overcoat (both written in 1928)
Listening to the 1929 recording by the Mound City Blue Blowers of I Ain’t Got Nobody and My Gal Sal shows the Broadcasters have captured the basic sound. Not surprising when you consider the group includes musicians of the calibre of Paul Furniss (reeds) Al Davey (trumpet and trombone) and Lawrie Thompson (drums and washboard) who show how well they have mastered the style. Grahame Conlon (tenor banjo) makes a mockery of those many banjo jokes with his rollicking solo on The Road To Gundagai. As for the leader, some may find his voice a little affected at times but he has captured that decade’s vocal style to perfection especially on Falling in Love Again sung in both English and German. As enjoyable as they are to listen to The Bakelite Broadcasters must be even better live.”
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