Ross Wilson @ The Royal Melbourne Show. 21^st/09/ 2005

Wilbur Wilde started the show with an instrumental piece followed by the Dragon hit, “April Sun In Cuba”. After the Axiom classic, “Little Ray Of Sunshine”, Ross Wilson and Eric McCusker joined the band on stage to the applause of the audience, opening with “Good Rockin’ Daddy” before playing “Bed Of Nails”, from the album “Dark Side Of The Man”*. The next few songs were both mondo rock hits(mondo rock reform for three shows in November, but more news on that later) “Summer Of 81” and “Cool World” were both well received before the 1971 classic “Come Back Again”.  Ross then had an entranced audience clapping to the intro of “Come Said The Boy” The second set was opened by Wilbur Wilde and guitarist Paul Gadsby dancing to “Love Is In The Air” which was followed by Skyhooks drummer Freddy Strauks singing “All My Friends Are Getting Married”. Ross Wilson and Eric McCusker were then re-introduced and played two daddy cool numbers “At The Rock House” followed by the 1972 hit “Hi Honey Ho” . After a few covers, one originally by Chuck Berry and the previous song being the Elvis classic “Hound Dog”. Paul Gadsby then stepped forward to perform a stunning version of “Stand By Me”. After “She’s So Fine” Ross turned to the audience and said “I want you all to turn to the person you’re here with or the person you’d like to be here with and say to them “I love you”. They’ll either say it back or give you a restraining order. Either way I’d like to see it” before “State Of The Heart”. Wilbur Wilde turned to the audience and asked them all to be upstanding for the national anthem. As the opening notes of “Eagle Rock” filled the air, audience members of all ages stood up and happily sung along to the timeless classic that closed the performance.

*Footnote: this CD is no longer available in stores. However, there is a copy of the track on “Now Listen”