The Blues Excuse - South-East Queensland Blues Band
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About This Site
Welcome to our web site! Here's a quick guide to what you'll find here:

To become a true Blues Excuse tragic, you should begin by studying our background information About The Band and casting your eyes over a small photo gallery that we've prepared for the press, fans and identification parades.

Once you've absorbed this, you can then move on to consulting our handy checklist to tell if you're really living a Blues Way Of Life (or just having yourself on) and then ponder Noel's world famous Beer Theories (now rated #2 or #3 by Google).

These should really whet your appetite to find out more about Terre Rouge, our brand new CD or to look over our handy booking information if you'd like to book us (and by now you really, really do, don't you?).

Then you can explore some zany useful links that we've put together to find out more about where we live and why we're the way we are (!!!)

We hope you like our site and you're very welcome to email us if you do.

It adds up to very good mojo for all concerned. That's right, mama!

Latest News
Kingaroy Wine and Food in the Park festival serves blues gumbo
The band had a ball at the 2011 festival. Great fun.
We shared a set with our old step-in keys guy Tim, the thin-fingered doctor of Hammond blues, who is now seeking fortune and (frankly) a rich patron in Sydney, and wrought some blues-o vibes from that veritable combination.
Then we jumped up for an impromptu set with Doc Spann and Ross Williams, which was enlivening to say the least. Punters jumped and howled (it being 8pm) and we retired sober but satisfied with the effort.
Looking forward to Hampton now, and very much loving the blues thing with wine and food audiences.

Hampton Festival - we will 'stimulate the senses'
We have undertaken to 'stimulate your senses' in Hampton. Taken broadly, this could involve nudity, but we promise we'll keep it strictly musical. We're on 15 May, which is a Sunday.

Folks, it will be a blues gig with the usual appetising mix of Chicago hump, Texas stomp and local slithery blues. We loved this festival last year in Hampton and can't wait to get there again. We drive past it often and wonder how they fit so much fun in a small space? No matter. It's a great spot and a great opportunity to hear the band play against a backdrop of giant eucalyptus trees.

Cds will be on sale at the festival, but the best way to grab a copy is to email us via this website.

We're at Bridgeman Downs Winery for the Vine Dining event in August. Check their website for details. All sorts of brilliant people cooking you food and playing you music and serving you mmm-wine. It'll be beaut. We'll flog CDs for sure.

See you there!!!

Yes!!! Our New CD was
Launched On February 27th!

24th July 2009: We were very chuffed to launch our CD - our debut bit of art - at Kingaroy's historic Carrollee Hotel one Friday evening back in February 2009.

The CD, Terre Rouge (that's French for "Red Earth"), took 5 years to put its 13 tracks together, mainly because we are very unorganised. Be that as it is, if you'd like a copy you can snavel a copy for a slim $20 somewhere on this website: You were expecting a link, weren't you?

OK, sorry, here it is: we're selling Terre Rouge by mail-order. You can find out how to get an autographed copy mailed to you anywhere in the world for just an extra $5 by clicking here.