About
LOCO LOVE and THE FURRY CARDIGAN is a musical duo for hire in Byron Bay, NSW.
Fifties, sixties and seventies songs, played in what this Byron Bay duo call their Nouveau Retro style. Both are multi-instrumentalists, both sing lead, and the harmonies are the point. The choices are the interesting part: alongside Brown Eyed Girl and California Dreamin' you'll get Accentuate the Positive, Brand New Key, Big River and the odd Smothers Brothers oddity, so the set covers gentle ballads, quirky singalongs and proper groove dance numbers. They read a room and shift accordingly, from background music to full audience engagement. They'll use your PA or bring their own, including a mic for your speakers, and can run on battery power for remote spots. About an hour to set up. MC work, parody and comedy songs written to order, and DJ music between sets are all on the table.
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On the day
Give them roughly an hour before the start to get set up, and about 40 minutes at the end to pack down. If your venue has a PA, they'll use it. If it hasn't, they'll bring their own, and when they do they can put a microphone aside for anyone giving a speech. Mains power covers the normal situation. For a remote spot with nothing to plug into, tell them in advance and they'll bring a battery powered system instead.
Performance options
They'll talk it through with you and put the pieces together to suit the day, and the list of pieces is longer than most duos offer. Live music is the centre of it. Around that they can supply the PA, run recorded music through the breaks, learn a song you've asked for, and handle MC duties for the whole event. The unusual one is written-to-order material: parody and comedy songs are a specialty, so a song about the couple or the retiring boss is genuinely on the table.
Song list
91 songs
ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE Bing Crosby
AGE OF AQUARIUS Hair
ALL I WANA DO Sheryl Crow
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE The Beatles
ALWAYS TAKE THE WEATHER WITH YOU Crowded House
ANOTHER YOU The Seekers
BETTER BE HOME SOON Crowded House
BIG RIVER Johnny Cash
BIG YELLOW TAXI Joni Mitchell
BLAME IT ON THE BOSSA NOVA Harry Belafonte
BRAND NEW KEY Melanie
BROKEDOWN PALACE The Grateful Dead
BROWN EYED GIRL Van Morrison
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN' The Mamas and the Papas
CAROLINA ON MY MIND James Taylor
CHOCOLATE (I FELL INTO A VAT OF) Smothers Brothers
COME BACK AGAIN Daddy Cool
DANCIN’ IN THE STREET Martha and the Vandellas
DANNY’S SONG Loggins and Messina
DAY TRIPPER The Beatles
DEEP ELLUM BLUES Shelton Bros (Bob Dylan)
DON’T EASE ME IN Henry Thomas
DON’T WORRY BE HAPPY Bobby McFerrin
DOWNTOWN Petula Clark
