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SHIT, 2007 already, seems like only yesterday we had the Olympic Games here. But seriously the last couple of years have flown by; Mark and I have been as busy as Beirut brickies. We've just completed our eighth year resident at the Bridge hotel, Friday evenings 6 - 9pm, in fact we're now into year nine. Also we've just racked up a full year resident at the Sandringham hotel, Newtown, on Saturday afternoons 4 - 7pm too. The duo is going from strength to strength and we've done our fair share of travelling, building strong followings in Newcastle and Wollongong and making numerous forays up and down the NSW coast.

One of the highlights of the year was our trip to Vienna, Austria where we played at a festival to launch the release of our debut European CD "Tice & Evans, Live at the Bridge" through "Heurecord" based in Vienna. Our performance was a great success and we've been invited to return in '07 to repeat the dose. Negotiations are ongoing while we try to pick up a few more gigs over there to hopefully extend our visit to at least a couple of weeks and do a few smaller club dates.
Recently "Tice & Evans" have made appearances on 2 TV shows, "The Dazz and Gazz Radio show on TV" and "On the Job" both shows are on TVS, channel 31.
We performed live in the studio for both shows and both were very successful. In fact the producer of "On the Job", Adam Fell, has since approached us with a proposition to make a documentary about us which he has already started filming segments for, his plan is to make an eighty to ninety minute film based on our careers which he'll be entering into a number of film festivals.
2007 has started with a bang and we have full diaries for the first 3 months of the year already, continuing our residencies and out of town trips. Highlights include performances at the Rocks in Sydney on Australia day on one of 5 stages which will be set up in the Rocks, and guest appearances with "The Party Boys" at the Bon Scott concert in Fremantle WA on February 25th. Mark will be doing a few tunes with them on Bass while I'll be singing a few Bon era songs with the band. We'll probably also do a short "Tice & Evans" set and expect to do a couple of club dates while we're there.

We're hoping to have the chance to do some more recording this year too, we're about due for a proper studio album, and will be working on that as we go along.
I'll be looking to do a few band gigs this year too, the new line-up of "The Dave Tice Band" is hot and ready to go. I've been writing songs for the band and we've done a couple of gigs already in '06. The line-up features members of award winning blues band "Finn" and we're concentrating on "Tice" originals, new songs and some old repertoire which isn't suitable for the duo.
It's been great to see the old "Buffalo" catalogue re-released, all the 5 albums are now available on "Aztec music", aztecmusic.com.au, and can be ordered at JB hi-fi shops. Aztec have done a fantastic job of re-mastering and re-packaging these CDs and I'd recommend them to any "Buffalo' fans.
Liner notes have been written by Ian McFarlane and are included in a 22 page booklet in each CD along with archival pics and posters etc.
In '05 I went to London to do 2 performances with "The Count Bishops" at Dingwalls and the 100 club and since then "Chiswick records" have released a CD Ep of unreleased recordings of the band from 1979 along with a DVD of 4 tracks recorded live at Dingwalls, they've also made available CDs of the 3 "Count Bishops" albums, it would appear that I'm turning into the re-issue king. But seriously it's a great honour to find that people still value our work so long after it was originally released.
So things look good for the future and Mark and I are excited about our prospects for '07 and beyond.

On another note, I'd just like to remember a couple of good mates who have passed on this last year, Ian Rilen who we'll all miss and of course my good friend Pete Wells. Pete and I go back a long way having started our careers together in Brisbane back in 1967 and played together in 'Buffalo" for 7 years. he was a great man and of course an inspirartion to many aspiring rock players, I loved him dearly and miss him badly,

I look forward to seeing you all at a "Tice & Evans" gig or maybe a band show throughout the year, all the best for '07, keep rocking.

Copulater, Dave.

On Sunday 25th February 2007 Tice & Evans will be part of a star studded cast paying homage to one of Australia's greats, Bon Scott when they perform in a line up of The Party Boys in Fremantle WA. The event is The Bon Scott Celebration Concert. More info at

Aztec Music has completed their release of the Buffalo catalogue with the last two albums Mothers Choice & Average Rock'n'Roller hitting the shops by the time you read this. What a great Christmas present for yourself or friends. Tice fans will be pleased to note two songs Dave recorded in 1976 & released as a solo single (now incredibly rare) have been included as bonus tracks on Average Rock'n'Roller. Mothers choice has two B side bonus tracks. The quality will be the same that Aztec are synonymous with. Rumour has it there may be more rare unearthed Buffalo material waiting to see the light of day. We'll just have to wait & see....

Dave & Mark had a great time in Vienna (see below) & played to an appreciative crowd. They will be returning there in 2007. The company putting the festival on has also released a cd of the live performance. Details at

The boys have told me they are delighted to have been invited to take part in this important event & hope to return next year possibly even incorporating some other dates in Europe as well. If you are a promoter or have a venue that may be suitable for 2007, then we look forward to hearing from you.

Good news for us Tice fans! Due to popular demand, Dave will be playing his own material in The Dave Tice Band. Keep an eye out on the gigs page for those selected dates. He will be showcasing some new songs as well as some Headhunters numbers, songs off his solo album Lay Down With Dogs & one or two tunes from the "never before heard live" Bar Kings album Sippin' & a Slidin'.

We’re here today to say our goodbyes to Pete Wells a loved and respected friend, someone who in one way or another has touched our lives and had a part in shaping who we are. The fact is that Pop has influenced and inspired a great many people, we all know about his immense contribution to Australian music, but just as important is the example of how he chose to live his life. And make no mistake, Pete lived how he chose to live, he wasn’t interested in playing someone else’s game.

He’s been called the “Rock and Roll Outlaw” and there’s no denying he was that, but there was a lot more than that to Pete, and those of us who knew him well can attest to his incisive wit and genuine humanity.

He was a loyal friend who cared deeply about the people around him and was always ready with a word of good advice or encouragement when it was needed. His insights into the workings of the music business were profound and he passed on this knowledge to anyone who took the time to listen.

Pete and I met in Brisbane in about 1966 when we formed our first band, we were both just teenagers and pretty green, but already Pete had a good working knowledge of what it took to make a great Rock and Roll band. We did our time playing around Queensland and finally decided we’d have a go in the big smoke, so off we went to Sydney where we spent a lot of time dossing around the cross and putting together Buffalo. During all this time Pete was playing Bass, which he did very well indeed. As we all know he found his true vocation when he took up Slide Guitar and formed “Rose Tattoo”, the rest is history; he’s regarded world-wide as a unique treasure.

Pete was a generous man who never forgot his friends. I remember when I turned 50 a taxi-driver appeared at my front door and handed me a guitar case, when I took it inside and opened it up there was a shiny, new red Bo-Diddley guitar inside with the message “happy 50th from Pete”, so I rang him to say thanks and he said “no worries mate I thought it was time you smartened up your image”.

If we can trace a man’s journey through this life by the tracks he leaves behind then Pete’s left some pretty large tracks. He wasn’t one to submit easily and fought the good fight right up to the end. We won’t see his like again, but we can take comfort in knowing he was our’s for a while.

BUFFALO – the legendary 70’s Australian hard rock band (the first outside the UK to be signed to the Vertigo label) are the subject of a deluxe reissue campaign by Australian label Aztec Music. Late 2005 / early 2006 will see the first official release of all 5 Buffalo albums: “Dead Forever”, “Volcanic Rock”, “Only Want You For Your Body”, “Mother’s Choice” and “Average Rock ‘n’ Roller” (we say “official”, because there have been, and still are, inferior bootlegs of some of the titles around that are not sanctioned by the rights holders or the band – our releases have been licensed from the rights holders, and done with the cooperation of the band themselves).

Each release will be a deluxe reissue, packaged in a 6 panel digi-pak, with a 20 page booklet with liner notes by noted Australian rock historian Ian McFarlane and many rare photos and quotes from recent interviews with key band members. In addition, the CD’s will be remastered from the original master tapes, and each have bonus tracks including non-LP b-sides, mono single mixes and rare live tracks. The first reissue, October 2005, will be Buffalo’s 2nd. LP “Volcanic Rock”, followed by the debut LP “Dead Forever” - October/November 2005, "Only Want You For Your Body” – December 2005, “Mother’s Choice” – February 2006, and “Average Rock ‘n’ Roller” – March 2006.

Aztec Music is an Australian reissue label, started by Gil Matthews – drummer from legendary Aussie 70’s band Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs, and engineer / producer of many 70’s recordings. The label has been set up expressly to reissue many unreleased classic Australian albums that have either; never been on CD before, been reissued poorly, or bootlegged. Each release will be packaged in a 6 panel digi-pak, with extensive liner notes, rare photos, remastered and with rare bonus material. The first 4 releases are: Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs “Live at Sunbury”, Billy Field “Best of: You Weren’t In Live With Me”, Buster Brown “Something to Say” (Buster Brown featured Angry Anderson from Rose Tattoo and Phil Rudd from AC/DC) and Thump’n Pig & Puff’n Billy “Downunda” (Thump’n Pig & Puff’n Billy were Warren Morgan from Chain & the Aztecs and Billy Thorpe).

TThe cds should be available from all good music shops. If you are having trouble finding them, contact me (email address at top of page) & I'll try & help out.

What an incredible time it was for Bishops fans who attended the 100 Club gig on Oxford street in London on 23rd Sept. The club was packed with fans who came from as far away as Australia, Japan, Sweden, France & the U.S.

We were treated to a great show, the Bishops giving it their all. To quote veteran journalist & long time Bishops supporter Charles Shaar Murray "the Bishops are sounding as good as they ever did". Who would have thought it was 25 years down the road since they last played!

I personally would like to thank the band, Johnny, Paul, Pat, Dave & especially Roger Armstrong of Ace Records for making it happen.

Thanks also to Dave (the enforcer) & Herve Colombet for sharing the experience.

There was some filming going on at the Ace records private party where the Bishops played the night before, so let us pray it sees the light.

While we're on the subject of The Head Hunters, you would be well advised to keep an eye on Paul Burtons' events page for gigs near you for The Shuffle Kings & Jim Conway's Big Wheel. Paul of course plays & has recorded with both these great bands as well as now doing an occasional duo with Dave.

Friday the 5th of November was another historical night at the Bridge Hotel. The Dave Tice Band (Dave, Mark Evans, Mike Gubb & Rob Grosser) played a couple of sets which included some of Daves' solo material from "Lay Down With Dogs" & some Headhunters numbers. What made the night extra special however was when local Sydney axeman & huge Buffalo fan Steve Lorkin got onstage to play a few Buffalo numbers & wow didn't they sound great! Mr. Tice was in fine voice & Lorko nailed the guitar parts, with the rest of the band grooving along. That coupled with a great mix by sound engineer Grahame Harrison made it an audible feast. Thanks for that blast gents & please let this happen again.

The Headhunters cd "Outlaw Boogie" has been remastered & re-released. This is great news as the original run was very limited & was nearly impossible to obtain for many years. (Available from me, see email above

Buffalo fans will be excited to know that on Jan. 13 'O2 Dave & original Buffalo guitarist John Baxter jammed at a rehearsal studio in Sydney. They were well accompanied by long time Buffalo fans Steve Lorkin & Murray Shepherd who are no strangers to the Sydney rock scene themselves. The hour long blow included many of the early Buffalo classics, Paranoid, Fade Away & a couple of tunes John is presently working on.