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    Mike Beale started out in the early 80’s in Fremantle Western Australia. Starting out in an era dominated by big scale rock music didn’t provide a great deal of opportunities for a roots based artist. But in 1984 a stroke of sporting magic changed the face of the local music scene. “Australia winning the Americas cup in the mid 80’s opened up a whole new range of gigs for me and a lot of other local artists, suddenly Fremantle became a cool place to hang out and watch music”.

    Playing in and around the small and more intimate venues in the now thriving Fremantle provided the platform to launch a successful local solo career. For several years Beale played the local scene culminating in a 1986 local release of his first album Breakaway.

    “I guess that album was more of a reflection of my passion for a west coast style of music, whereas nowadays there’s probably a greater emphasis on a raw, roots based approach - acoustic guitar with a strong vocal and a great lyric.”

     

     

     

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    Not long after releasing that first album Beale left West Australia for greener pastures which found him playing in places as far apart as Canberra and Cairns before eventually ending up on the Gold coast.

    The past 4 years have been very busy for Mike, as well as continuing solo commitments there is the ongoing commitment to Men in Blues. MIB released a new cd Battered and Bruised in 2007 backed with national touring commitments and appearances at the Australian Blues Festival, Blues on Broadbeach, Bridgetown Blues and the Gympie Muster. Plus several Beale original songs released by Men in Blues overseas on the BAR blues and roots Australian compilation cds.

    A cancelled recording session for MIB mid 2008 gave Mike an opportunity to take a break from live playing and record a bunch of new songs. “I’m always writing and I had a heap of songs not really suitable for the band which I was really keen to get down”.


     

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    What started as a fill in day has turned out to be a double cd of terrific new heartfelt songs. Every artists new album these days comes with a media campaign heralding brilliant new songs, catchy hooks, amazing song writing etc and often the listener is left disappointed.

    With Beale it’s like someone’s taken all the best bits of your favourite singer songwriters mixed them together and then added a guy who can really play guitar and sing.

    Heartfelt lyrics with beautiful melodies married to great guitar playing. Never once do you forget that this is a powerful acoustic artist but equally remarkably is you won’t find yourself listening to a bunch of songs that all sound the same.


    www.myspace.com/mikebealesolo and hear the difference.

     

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  • It was just a chance email early in 2009 that introduced Perth based blues singer KNiKi with Gold Coast based guitarist/frontman of Men in Blues fame Mike Beale......read more


    Visit KNiKi at:
    www.kniki.com
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    www.myspace.com/kniki08

    		 
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    Ghost Bones CD

    16 Near Perfect Songs
    By Mr Bob Dylan

    Sung by Mike Beale



     

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