About
Paul Fogarty - The Wonder From Down Under is a singer-songwriter for hire in Sunshine Coast, QLD.
Fifty original songs on prime time European TV and film since 2015, plus project work for Sony Japan, Susan Boyle and Constantin Film. Paul Fogarty has toured with Arrested Development and opened for Status Quo, Joss Stone, Richard Clapton, Karma County, Nick Barker and the Angelo Kelly Band, and shared festival bills with David Gray and John Fogerty. It's all acoustic. Guitar, piano, lap slide, harmonica and ukulele, and a voice he's not shy about. Expect his own songs, Stagefright, Grind, Blaze, Tombstones, Cripple Street among them, alongside distinctly reworked takes on Bill Withers, Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Hank Williams and Ben Harper. Honest, funny in patches, and deep when it wants to be. He's played weddings in Oxford and festivals across Switzerland, Holland, Germany and Belgium. Sunshine Coast based, needs two metres square.
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The show
Acoustic, and closer to a show than a background set. Paul Fogarty sings his own songs alongside reworked versions of covers that most people have heard done the same way too many times, and he does not leave them where he found them. Jokes land through the night, and the stage presence is real. Oxford has had him at a wedding, Munich at a christening, Sydney at a birthday, and the festival circuit has taken him through Switzerland, Holland, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Berlin. Two thousand gigs and two thousand written songs sit behind all of it.
Performance options
Sets run 45 minutes. You can book a single power set, two sets, or three across a longer night. He travels from Brisbane, so a booking outside that reach needs travel and accommodation sorted as part of the arrangement.
Insurance and paperwork
Public liability insured
Song list
20 songs
Ben Harper songs.
Blaze
Blood Stained Sky
Bob Dylan songs
The Chosen One
Cripple Street
Frozen
Grind
Hank Williams songs
Hard Day etc etc
Home
Iron Lung
James Taylor songs
Momma's House
My original songs - Stagefright
plus my unique takes on a whole bunch of cover songs - Bill Withers songs
Ray La Montagne songs
Shine On
Someone
Tombstones
