Tribute band set to rock you in KISS My Brass concert
KISS fans can get ready to rock and roll all night when a tribute band puts on the "performance of a lifetime", all in the name of a good cause.
Black Diamond, made up of Gene Summons, Peter Miss, Paul Manly and Ace Feelme, will perform some of the best hits from the KISS archive at its concert, KISS My Brass, to help raise funds for the Bundaberg Municipal Bands' hall move.
"They need to move their historic hall right across town from the old show ground to the new showground. They need $100,000 to do it," Craig Walsh (aka Gene Summons) said.
"The Municipal Band have been part of the fabric of the community for over 80 years. That hall has been attached to them pretty much the whole time so we need to keep them going and keep them viable."
Walsh said the one-off show and gala event would include Black Diamond on stage performing KISS hits with the Municipal Band playing parts arranged by local musician and KISS tribute band member, Michael Farthing.
"Tickets include a three-course meal, drink on arrival plus the biggest show of the year," he said.
Farthing (aka Peter Miss) said KISS fans would be crazy to miss the upcoming spectacular.
"It is going to be big. Bigger than any tribute band you have seen in Bundaberg so far," he said.
Farthing and Walsh said Black Diamond, which first formed about a year-and-a-half ago, was riding on a random wave of success and wanted to help out where it could.
"We first formed for a one-off show that was never going to be repeated," Walsh said.
"After our first show, we actually got a call back from someone who said 'I want you at my birthday party'," Farthing said.
"We turned up in the make-up and played and now this event has been born.
"We thought what a cool idea it would be. The real KISS played with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Black Diamond plays with the Municipal Band. It is a match made in heaven."
The KISS My Brass gala dinner will be held on Saturday, July 16 at Brothers Sports Club from 6.30pm with the theme "Dressed to Kill".
Single tickets cost $85 or tables of 10 can be purchased for $750.
For more information or to book, log on to bundylive.com.au.