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Russell

Solo · Based in Sydney

About this act

Thirty years as a professional entertainer, most of them spent in NSW venues, and Russell has worked out the thing a lot of solo acts miss. He plays what the room wants to hear, not what he feels like playing. So the set moves between songs people can dance to and songs people can sit and listen to, with a deep run of Irish material alongside the popular stuff. Good instruments, good amplification, and each show gets shaped around what the booking actually needs. Weddings, private functions, corporate events, venues and special occasions around Sydney.

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A Pirate Looks at Forty Jimmy Buffett/Jack Johnson Air That I Breathe, The The Hollies All I Have To Do Is Dream The Everley Brothers All I Have to Offer You is Me Charlie Pride All Shook Up Elvis Presley Amanda Don Williams/Waylon Jennings Amazed Lonestar American Pie Don MacLean And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda Eric Bogle Angel of Harlem U2 Anniversary Song, The Al Jolson / The Fureys Another Saturday Night Sam Cooke / Jimmy Buffett Are You Old Enough Dragon Bad Bad Leroy Brown Jim Croce Bad Case of Loving You Robert Palmer Bad Moon Rising Creedence Clearwater Revival Battle of New Orleans, The Johnny Horton Before Too Long Paul Kelly Better Be Home Soon Crowded House Better Man Robbie Williams Big City Merle Haggard Blue Bayou Roy Orbison Blue Suede Shoes Carl Perkins Blueberry Hill Fats Domino Boxer, The Simon and Garfunkle/Mumford and Sons  Boys From the Bush Lee Kernaghan Bright Side of the Road Van Morrison Brown Eyed Girl Van Morrison Bye Bye Love The Everley Brothers Caledonia Dougie MacLean Cannibals Mark Knopfler Cape, The Guy Clark Carmelita Warren Zevon Carolina In My Mind James Taylor Cat's In the Cradle Harry Chapin C'est La Vie ( You Never Can Tell ) Emmylou Harris/Chuck Berry Changes in Latitude Jimmy Buffett City of New Orleans Arlo Guthrie/Willie Nelson Come Monday Jimmy Buffett Copperhead Road Steve Earle Corina Corina Brooks and Dunne Could I Have This Dance Anne Murray Coward of the County Kenny Rodgers Crazy Willie Nelson Crying Roy Orbison Cupid Sam Cooke Daisy-a-Day Jud Strunk Days Like This Van Morrison Diamantina Drover Redgum Dock of the Bay Otis Redding Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying Jerry and the Pacemakers Down On the Corner Creedence Clearwater Revival Down Under Men at Work Drivin’ My Life Away Eddie Rabbit Duelling Banjos Eric Weis Dumb Things Paul Kelly End of the Line, The The Travelling Wilburys Everything I Do Bryan Adams Father and Son Cat Stevens Ferry 'cross the Mersey Jerry and the Pacemakers Fields of Gold Sting Fire and Rain James Taylor First Cut is the Deepest, The Cat Stevens/Rod Stewart Fisherman’s Blues The Waterboys Fly Like a Bird Boz Scaggs Folsom Prison Blues Johhny Cash Four Stong Winds Neil Young Friends In Low Places Garth Brooks From a Jack to a King Ned Miller Galway Girl, The Steve Earle Gambler, The Kenny Rodgers Ghostriders in the Sky Frankie Laine Gloria Van Morrison Goodluck Charm Elvis Presley Green Green Grass of Home Tom Jones Green River Creedence Clearwater Revival Handyman James Taylor Harley and Rose The Black Sorrows Have I Told You Lately That I Love You Van Morrison Have You Ever Seen the Rain Creedence Clearwater Revival He'll Have To Go Jim Reeves He's Gone Country Allan Jackson Hey Mr DJ Van Morrison Highwayman, The The Highwaymen Honey Don't Carl Perkins/The Beatles House of the Rising Sun, The The Animals I Believe In Love Don Williams I Can't Help Falling In Love With You Elvis Presley I Can't Help It Hank Williams I Heard It Through The Grapevine Creedence Clearwater Revival I Just Wanna Dance With You George Strait I Love a Rainy Night Eddie Rabbit I Recall a Gypsy Woman Don Williams I Saw Her Standing There The Beatles I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For U2 I Walk the Line Johnny Cash I Was Only Nineteen Redgum If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body The Bellamy Brothers If Tomorrow Never Comes Ronan Keating/Garth Brooks I'm a Believer The Monkees I'm Gonna Be ( 500 Miles ) The Proclaimers I'm Gonna Live Forever The Highwaymen I'm Leaving on a Jet Plane John Denver I'm On My Way The Proclaimers I’m the Son of Hickory Holler’s Tramp O. C. Smith Imagine John Lennon Jailhouse Rock Elvis Presley Jambalaya Hank Williams Kansas City Fats Domino Khe Sanh Cold Chisel King of the Road Roger Miller Last Farewell, The Roger Whittaker Last Laugh, The Mark Knopfler and Van Morrison Leaps and Bounds Paul Kelly Let the Canefields Burn Graeme Connors Like a Rolling Stone Bob Dylan Little Ol’ Wine Drinker Me Dean Martin Live It Up Mental as Anything Living Next Door To Alice Smokey Living On Love Alan Jackson Lodi Creedence Clearwater Revival Lonesome Fugitive Merle Haggard Long May You Run Neil Young Lookin’ Out My Backdoor Creedence Clearwater Revival Losing My Religion R.E.M. Love is in the Air John Paul Young Love Me Tender Elvis Presley Lovesick Blues, The Hank Williams Margaritaville Jimmy Buffett Midnight Special, The Creedence Clearwater Revival Moondance Van Morrison Mountain of Love Johnny Rivers Mr Bojangles Jerry Jeff Walker Mrs Robinson Simon and Garfunkel Mustang Sally The Commitments My Girl The Drifters No It’s Not Love Merle Haggard No-Man’s Land Eric Bogle North To Alaska Johhny Horton Now and Forever Richard Marx Oh, Lonesome Me The Kentucky Headhunters Okie from Muskogee Merle Haggard Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine Tom T. Hall On the Road Again Willie Nelson Ordinary Man Christy Moore Outback Club, The Lee Kernaghan Peaceful Easy Feeling The Eagles Pencil-Thin Mustache Jimmy Buffett Promises Eric Clapton Proud Mary Creedence Clearwater Revival Raggle Taggle Gypsy The Waterboys Rainy-Day People Gordon Lightfoot Return To Sender Elvis Presley Rhythm of the Falling Rain Bobby Vinton Right Here Waiting For You Richard Marx Ring of Fire Johnny Cash Route 66 The Rolling Stones Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town Kenny Rodgers Rueben James Kenny Rodgers Runaway Del Shannon Runaway Train Soul Asylum Running Bear Johnny Burnett San Francisco (Flowers in Your Hair) Scott McKenzie Saturday Night At the Movies The Drifters Save the Last Dance For Me The Drifters Sea Of Heartbreak Don Gibson Seems It Never Rains In Southern California Albert Hammond Seven Spanish Angels Willie Nelson and Ray Charles She Was Only Sixteen Dr Hook She's My Ute Lee Kernaghan Silver Threads and Golden Needles The Springfields Six Days On the Road Dave Dudley Slow Boat To China Emille Ford and the Checkmates Solitary Man Neil Diamond Some Days Are Diamonds John Denver Song Sung Blue Neil Diamond Sounds of Silence, The Simon and Garfunkel Streets of London Ralph McTell Summer Girls Ralph McTell Summertime Blues Allan Jackson Sunday Morning Coming Down Kris Kristofferson Sweeney Slim Dusty / Henry Lawson Sweet Caroline Neil Diamond Sweet Dream Baby Roy Orbison Sydney From a 747 Paul Kelly Take Me Home Country Roads John Denver Take These Chains From My Heart Hank Williams Talk of the Town John Farnham Teach Your Children Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Tennesse Waltz, The Patti Page / Emmylou Harris Tequila Sunrise The Eagles That'll Be the Day Buddy Holly The Next Time I'm In Town Mark Knopfler There's a Tear in My Beer Hank Williams Three-Rivers Hotel Slim Dusty / John Williamson Throw Your Arms Around Me Hunters and Collectors To Her Door Paul Kelly To Sir With Love Lulu Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down Merle Haggard Tonight the Heartache's on Me The Dixie Chicks True Blue John Williamson Unchained Melody The Righteous Brothers Under The Boardwalk The Drifters Up On Cripple Creek The Band Walk on By Leroy Van Dyke Wanderer, The Del Shannon Way Out West James Reyne and James Blundell We've Gotta Get Out of This Place  The Animals Weather the Storm Ralph McTell Weight, The The Band Werewolves of London Warren Zevon Whatta Ya Wanna Make Those Eyes…. Emille Ford and the Checkmates When I'm 64 The Beetles When the Rain Tumbles Down in July Slim Dusty Where Do You Go To My Lovely Peter Sarstedt Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw Jimmy Buffett Will the Circle Be Unbroken Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Witchita Lineman Glen Campbell / Jimmy Webb Wonderful World Sam Cooke Working For The Man Roy Orbison Working Man Rita McNeil Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, The Gordon Lightfoot You Got It Roy Orbison You Say It Best Ronan Keating You Were Always On My Mind Willie Nelson You're In My Heart Rod Stewart You're My Best Friend Don Williams You're Sixteen Ringo Starr You're So Vain Carly Simon You've Got a Friend James Taylor IRISH SONGS/TUNES  A Pair Of Brown Eyes Angel Of Harlem Back Home In Derry Belfast Mill Black Velvet Band Boston Burglar, The Boys of the Old Brigade, The Bright Side Of the Road Broad Black Brimmer Brown-Eyed Girl Bunch Of Thyme Carrickfergus Cliffs Of Duneen, The Cockles and Mussels Come Back Paddy Reilly Come Out You Black and Tans Craic Was Ninety In the Isle Of Man, The Danny Boy Days Like This Diamantina Drover, The Dirty Old Town Donnegal Danny Fairytale Of New York Far Away In Australia Ferryman, The Fiddler's Green Fields of Athenry, The Finnegan's Wake Foggy Dew, The From Clare To Here Galway Bay Galway City Galway Races, The Gloria Good Ship Kangaroo, The Have I Told You Lately Hey Mr DJ I Loved the Ground She Walked Upon I Want To See the Bright Lights Tonight If Tomorrow Never Comes  I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen I'll Tell Me Ma Ireland Over Here Irish Rover, The It's a Long Way To Tipperary John O'Dreams Jug Of Punch, The Kelly the Boy From Killarne Last Laugh, The Leaving Of Liverpool, The Little Beggarman, The Maggie Marie's Wedding McAlpine's Fusiliers Mermaid, The Moondance Moonshiner, The Mountain Dew/Brown Jug Polka/I'll Tell Me Ma/Marie's Wedding Mountains Of Mourne, The Mr Punch and Judy Man Mustang Sally My Wild Irish Rose Nancy Spain Old Rustic Bridge By the Mill, The Orange and the Green, The Plastic Paddy Rare Old Mountain Dew, The Rare Old Times, The Ride On Rocky Road To Dublin, The Rose Of Tralee Runaway Sam Hall Sean South Of Garryowen Shores Of Botany Bay, The Sick Note, The Silver Threads Among the Gold Since Maggie Went Away Snowy-Breasted Pearl Song For Ireland Spancil Hill Springhill Mining Disaster, The Star of the County Down Steal Away Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For Streams Of Whisky The Gaelic Club/Lannigan's Ball/Tobin's Favourite The Gallopede/Pat Horgans 1 & 2/The Siege Of Ennis  The Galway Races/The Recruiting Sergeant The Muckin' Of Geordie's Byre/The Rakes Of Kildare/The Gaelic Club The Old Triangle The Whale Town I Loved So Well, The Trip To Jerusalem Tripping Up the Stairs When Irish Eyes Are Smiling When You Say Nothing At All When You Were Sweet Sixteen Whiskey In the Jar Whiskey On a Sunday Whistling Gypsy, The Wild Colonial Boy, The Wild Rover, The Will Ye Go Lassie Go ( Wild Mountain Thyme ) Yesterday's Men

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