About
Aussie & the Menace is a band for hire in Toowoomba, QLD.
Toowoomba is home, but the songbook pulls from two countries. Aussie and the Menace fold Australian and Canadian roots into an Americana sound built on real songwriting: originals like If This Guitar Could Talk, which picked up an Australian Songwriter Award in the country category, sit alongside Copperhead Road, 500 Miles, Eagle Rock and Heart of Gold. Covers run from the 50s to now across pop, rock and country. They'll come as a solo, a duo for quieter rooms, or the full four piece with its own backline and mixer, and with a professional audio engineer in the lineup, most small to medium venues need to provide nothing more than a PA and two monitors.
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The show
Americana and roots with real songwriting underneath it, which is the part that separates this from a straight covers gig. The originals come first: emotive, catchy, written to be listened to. Then come the classic rock covers and the country flavours, and a mix of Canadian and Australian favourites. Most of the night you can talk, eat and move around. But when Stuck in the Middle With You or 500 Miles or Eagle Rock lands, they'll push the volume up and let the floor fill.
On the day
It depends which version you book. The acoustic duo brings everything and suits a quieter room. The full four piece needs a PA and two floor monitors from you, and brings its own backline, mics and stands, plus an X32 mixer they tune to the room and patch into your system. Standard rig is two guitar DIs, a bass DI and a mic'd drum kit. A sound engineer helps at bigger venues, though one of the band does audio professionally, so most small to medium rooms are covered.
Performance options
There are three ways in. The duo comes fully self-contained and plays two sets of listening music. The full band does two, three or four sets, and you can either supply the PA or have the band bring one. There's also a version built for festivals and events that involve travel.
Song list
54 songs
Set 1
1. Heart of Gold
2. The Weight
3. When I Was Five (original)
4. Hold on
5. If This Guitar Could Talk (original - Australian Songwriter Award - Country)
6. Big Montana Sky (original)
7. Hurricane (original)
8. Stuck In the Middle
9. Lullaby / Rockabye
10. Wild West Show (original)
Set 2
11. Come Back Again / Eagle Rock
12. Always Gonna Be that Way (original)
13. No Secrets
14. Cabin in the Woods (original)
15. Gulf of Mexico
16. Crystal Ball (original)
17. Down on the Corner
18. You’ve Got a Good Heart (original)
19. Bramble Lane (original)
20. Angels Among Devils (original)
21. Daddy’s Guns (original)
Set 3
