Shade Hadie is a local Brisbane Band with Buddy Moyes on guitar, vocals and harmonica, Oskar Thaw on guitar, Peter Donoghy on drums and Michael Georgas on bass. Inspired by 60s artists like Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and Canned Heat, their music is a kaleidoscope of electric blues and vintage rock.
You'll find Shade Hadie at The Cave Inn or The Royal Mail Hotel, performing blues music from the 50s and 60s as well as some of their own new original compositions. But these are not note-for-note covers, with exceptional twin lead guitar, gravelly vocals, some crazy blues harmonica playing backed by explosive drums, smooth bass and bongo beats, the band create music that sounds and feels their own.
Follow the Band on instagram for all their upcoming gigs and take a wild ride back to the 60s.
From 'A local band to watch out for - Shade Hadie ' written by the Blues Association of South East Queensland (BASEQ) Editor, September 2023
"So your humble BASEQ editor stumbled upon a group of four very young musicians who left me impressed. It wasn’t their youth, it wasn’t the use of vintage high powered guitar amplifiers played at a very comfortable volume but just dripping with tone. It wasn’t really even the choice of material they were playing.
It was the feel of that material. It was the musical communication between the members on stage. It was like that they didn’t just play materials that would have been appropriate coming from the 1960’s Blues Explosion in the U.K., it was like they understood it at an intimate level – got inside the music, past the notes and rhythms – and had been doing it for years. And, at the time, they weren’t even 20."
