Vika & Linda will play their debut Christmas album 'Gee Whiz, it’s Christmas' at Melbourne Recital Centre on December 2 as part of ALWAYS LIVE.
Over the years, the Bull sisters have had the opportunity to support and work with the likes of Billy Joel, Joe Cocker, Sting, Bob Dylan and Paul Kelly in addition to their solo careers; yet it all started in the mid-eighties upon being asked to join The Black Sorrows. Over their 30-year career, Vika and Linda have also performed for the King of Tonga for his 70th birthday celebrations, performed in the bullring in Pamplona, and for the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Ruben Carter.
At the Melbourne Recital Centre audiences are invited to celebrate the festive season with the inimitable Vika and Linda Bull, as they take audiences on a toe-tapping journey with songs from their debut Christmas album, Gee Whiz, it’s Christmas! Performed live for the very first time.
Vika and Linda at Melbourne Recital Centre
- Vika and Linda will play their debut Christmas album, Gee Whiz, it’s Christmas!
- Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre and ALWAYS LIVE
- It’s happening on Sunday December 4
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Gee Whiz, It’s Christmas! will be released by Bloodlines on 4 November. The sisters are not singing the standard seasonal songs. Instead, the record is filled with their own festive favourites, with Vika & Linda delivering their take on contemporary Christmas classics by the Ramones, Slade, Wizzard and Queen.
Vika & Linda celebrate the festive season today with the release of the album opener, their version of Tom Petty’s ‘Christmas All Over Again’. In February Vika & Linda settled down at Woodstock Studios with producer Cameron Bruce (keyboards) and the Vika & Linda band featuring Ben Hauptmann (guitars), Richard Bradbeer (bass) and Lachlan O’Kane (drums). They put some tinsel on the walls to create a Christmas feel, and got cracking on a set of songs that includes a stomping version of Slade’s 1973 UK chart-topper ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’, a rollicking take on Wizzard’s glam rock gem ‘I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day’, as well as a couple of Bull family favourites – ‘Blue Christmas’, which Elvis recorded in 1957, and ‘Please Come Home For Christmas’, which was recorded by Willie Nelson, one of their Dad’s favourite singers.
Tickets available from melbournerecital.com.au
