Entertainment
30 November, 2024
It’s a bad moon rising at city’s CPAC
I SEE a bad moon rising with the arrival of Creedence Clearwater Collective to the stage of the Cairns Performing Arts Centre (CPAC) on November 29 for a howling good time.
Tribute band from Gold Coast – Creedence Clearwater Revival – are coming to Cairns to celebrate with classic rock fans the masterpieces of Creedence Clearwater Revival and John Fogarty during their short stint as a band in the late 60s and early 70s.
The show will go through CCR’s biggest hits like 'Bad Moon Rising', 'Fortunate Son', 'Have You Ever Seen The Rain' and more, plus lots of crowd interaction and a fun ‘howling at the moon’ section. "Creedence is just fun music, when you play lots of different bands you realise they have very depressing songs but everything about Creedence is fun, I started this band thinking of having fun every night,” said Creedence Clearwater Collective’s vocalist Tim Carter.
“Sometimes music can be a bit of a drag because everything is so serious but Creedence is so fun that it makes it fun to turn up every night.
“We bring, not only a four-piece band, we have a piano player, a saxophone player and we just have a lot of fun on stage. There’s quite a lot of crowd participation, they sing-along and we also have a ‘howling at the moon’ segment to involve the crowd. There’s a massive screen and we raise a moon on it every song and we all howl at it”.
Mr Carter said Creedence Clearwater Collective was for everyone looking to forget about their problems for a couple of hours and immerse themselves in fun music.
“We’re going to have a good time like we do every night and we hope people are there to sing along with us,” he said.
“There’s going to be a lot of howling at the moon and lots of melodies everyone knows. We’ll play some of the main hits like 'Bad Moon Rising', 'Proud Mary' and 'Midnight Special' and – for most people – even if they don’t know Creedence they do because their music has been played so much in radio and media.
“If you want to have a good time and get away from the crazy world, all the politics and all the negative stuff come to our show and we’ll give you two hours of just laughing and having a good time.”
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