About
Waiting for Brenda is a cover band for hire in Brisbane, QLD.
Some of it moves a room, some of it quietens one. Waiting for Brenda are a six piece from Brisbane playing alt-country, rock and blues, built around dobro, fiddle, bass, drums, guitar and vocals, with originals from songwriter Brenda Lee Kelly sitting alongside covers. The covers lean towards Johnny Cash, Lucinda Williams, Billy Bragg, The Pogues, Gillian Welch, Marty Robbins and the Go-Betweens. There's a countrified indie folk thing going on, with more swagger than the description suggests. They've played bars, cafes, festivals, weddings, parties, corporate nights and council events, and the show comes with stories between the songs and a decent amount of dancing.
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The show
Six players on stage, all of them long past the nervous stage, working through material that jumps between genres rather than settling into one groove for the night. There's real energy in how they play it. The room list tells you the range: bars and cafes, festivals, weddings, private parties, corporate nights and council events have all had them, which means they know how to pitch a set at a Saturday crowd and how to pitch one at a Tuesday civic function. Expect a lively show and performers who don't coast.
Song list
24 songs
Alone with you - Sunnyboys
Big Iron - Marty Robbins
Boots are made for walking
Caleb Meyer - Gillian Welch
Can’t Let Go - Lucinda Williams
Concrete and Barbwire- Lucinda Williams
Don’t go back to Rockville - REM
Everything is broken - Bob Dylan
Fever - Peggy Lee
Harper Valley PTA - Jeannie C Riley
Hit the road Jack
Jesse James- The Pogues
Man you don’t meet every day - The Pogues
New England - Billy Bragg
Punk’s not dead (it’s gone country) - original
Right here - Go-betweens
Ring of fire - Johnny Cash
She knows all the words to Patsy Cline
That’s alright Mama - Elvis Presley
Wagon Wheel - Old Crow Medicine Show
Walk the line- Johnny Cash
Wildhorse Mountain - original
You woke up my neighbourhood- Billy Bragg
You’re looking at Country - Loretta Lynn
