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Ten years in the making - 2.5 hours of sheer Zep magic!!

April / May 2013
ON SALE NOW

Friday 26 April - Laycock Theatre, Gosford SOLD OUT
Saturday 27 April - IPAC Wollongong, HERE for tix
Thursday 2 May - QPAC Brisbane HERE for tix
*Simon Meli won't be appearing at the Brisbane show
Friday 10 May - Palais Theatre, Melb HERE for tix
Saturday 18 May - State Theatre Sydney HERE for tix

Plus an exceptional powerhouse band with Gordon Rytmeister (drums), Greg Royal (bass), Stuart Fraser (guitars), Robert Woolf (keyboards), Tony Azzopardi (percussion), Adrian Keating (violin), Rachel Thompson (viola), Charlotte Roberts (cello) under the creative direction of Joseph Calderazzo (guitars), to bring it on home.

CONGRATULATIONS to the 3 winners of our BOWERS & WILKINS ‘ZEPPELIN AIR’ giveaway - Karen Higgs, Adam Pincus and Paul Sclater, who purchased tickets prior to Feb 28 and told us what their fave Zep song is. The amazing Zeppelin AIR iPhone speaker system will surely keep a bustle in their hedgerow until the concerts!

Check it out HERE

“Led Zeppelin was the most influential hard rock band of all time, bar none.” Slash

WHOLE LOTTA LOVE is a scintillating concert experience with a peerless reputation for exceptional musicianship and electrifying vocal performances that pays homage to one of the biggest bands of all time by deftly traversing rock, blues, folk, country and mythology to create an unforgettable night of physical graffiti.

In April and May 2013 the WHOLE LOTTA LOVE mothership celebrates 10 years as one of the longest running large scale Led Zeppelin tributes to one of the biggest bands of all time and the 40th anniversary of the ground breaking Houses of the Holy album.

To mark the ten-year milestone the WHOLE LOTTA LOVE tour will for the first time be held at Sydney’s prestigious State Theatre (May 18), after selling out The Enmore Theatre for the past three years. The concert also returns to Melbourne’s Palais Theatre (May 10) and Brisbane’s QPAC (May 2), but not before two intimate shows at the Laycock Theatre in Gosford (April 26) and the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre (April 27).

Featuring some of the country’s best rock musicians, this mammoth homage to Led Zeppelin will celebrate and recreate the music from one of the most influential bands that have walked the Earth.

In 2013 the show amps up the line-up to fourteen artists, including guest vocalists Jimmy Cupples (The Voice), Steve Balbi (Noiseworks), Simon Meli (The Widowbirds), Dallas Frasca and Natasha Stuart. Leading this crew of diverse musicians on the wild, hypnotic journey is musical director and guitarist Joseph Calderazzo with a powerhouse 9-piece band including Gordon Rytmeister (drums), Greg Royal (bass), Stuart Fraser (guitars), Robert Woolf (keyboards), Tony Azzopardi (percussion), Adrian Keating (violin), Rachel Thompson (viola) and Charlotte Roberts (cello), who will break the levee with their committed energy.

Across 2.5 hours many of the classics will be performed including ‘Stairway To Heaven’, Black Dog’, ‘Kashmir’, ‘Battle of Evermore’ and ‘Immigrant Song’, amongst a collection of other hits and rarities from the band’s infamous career.

Universally known as one of the world’s most influential bands, Led Zeppelin produced nine studio albums, three live albums, sold a staggering 200+ million albums worldwide, toured the globe and influenced music and fans for generations to come. Released on 28th March 1973, their fifth studio album Houses of the Holy featured defining songs such as D’yer Mak’er and The Ocean. Certified eleven times platinum by the RIAA, and ranked in the Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums of all time list, Houses of the Holy was seen as a stylistic turning point in the lifespan of Led Zeppelin.

The continued success and longevity of WHOLE LOTTA LOVE is owed not only to the devotion of the fans, but also to the dedication and passion of the performers. Coming together under the direction of Joseph Calderazzo, WHOLE LOTTA LOVE delivers an authentic Led Zeppelin experience like no other.

Secure your tickets quickly for this incredible night of physical graffiti.

“Matches anything in this vein presented anywhere in the world.’ - Michael Smith (Drum Media)

“Beautifully evoked....as close as you’ll get to the real thing”
Christie Eliezer (Music Network)

“In a word – Incredible!’ Clayton Doughty (Gibson)

“A stunning night of rock and roll" Rod Quinn, 702 ABC Sydney

Event YouTube Channel: WholeLottaLoveTour
Tour Website: wholelottalovetour.com.au
Promoter Website: ccent.com.au

Presented by CCEntertainment in association with Gibson, Bowers and Wilkins,
Australian Guitar Magazine, Verl live and Drum Media.

*Simon Meli won't be appearing at the Brisbane show

View the ‘Whole Lotta Love’ Promo Video HERE

Follow us on twitter - please use #wholelottalovetour when tweeting about the show

For all media enquiries please contact Alissa Cronau
Reckoning Entertainment
PO Box 835 Petersham | NSW |2049
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Celebration Day all formats available HERE

Mothership available from JB HiFi
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CCE would like to thank our Concert Partners

Since I've Been Loving You 2010 Video

Written by Administrator | 26 October 2010

Zkye and Joseph doing Since Ive Been Loving You at the Enmore Whole Lotta Love concert on Sept 16 2010.

Provided by ColinHay66 on Youtube. Thanks Colin!

Whole Lotta Love Review

Written by Christie Eliezer | 06 October 2010

Led Zeppelin celebration

Palais Theatre, Friday October 1, 2010

“You don’t know what a joy it is to sing these songs,” Dave Gleeson of the Screaming Jets told the crowd midway through “Whole Lotta Love”. That was obvious in the way he leaped, ran around the stage and swirled his butt at the audience. He was one of the night’s singers brought together by Sydney guitarist and music director Joseph Calderazzo of CCEntertainment.

Tonight was not a by-numbers gallop through the Zep songbook. Rather it was a celebration which reassembled the songs respectfully and captured the spirit that originally drove the music. The hammering riffs of “Rock and Roll”, “The Ocean”, “Black Dog” and “Immigrant Song” kept purists happy. But the others threw in Zep’s palette of Middle Eastern, blues and celtic that transcended a music created by four white males. “Battle of Evermore” took on Eastern tinges and “Four Sticks” a blistering blues workout, that highlighted the light/shade of Zep music.

So the roll-out of singers wasn’t confined to males Gleeson, John Swan, Dave Larkin, Steve Balbi of Noiseworks and Simon Meli of Sydney’s The Widowbirds. Adelaide’s Zkye Compson-Harris and Ngaiire, ex of Blue King Brown, put in thunderous performances, while keys player Charmaine Ford, who shone on synths and piano on “No Quarter”, took turns on guitar and percussion.

The most magnificent moments came when the ensemble, joined by the Sydney Lyric Strings, stretched to 15 minutes utterly glorious “Stairway To Heaven”, “Rain Song” (with such wonderful guitar interplay by Calderazzo and Peter Northcote that at the end they shook hands), “Moby Dick”, with a drum solo from Gordon Rytmeister, and the peak with “Kashmir” where you could see the red sands. The night finished with the entire ensemble on “Whole Lotta Love” to a standing ovation.

This show was the first foray to Melbourne by CCEntertainment which has been holding such celebrations of Eagles, Stones, Beatles etc in NSW and ACT. Given the crowd reaction to “Whole Lotta Love”, we should see more of theses in Australia’s most musical city.

— CHRISTIE ELIEZER

Palais Theatre, Melbourne

Written by Administrator | 06 October 2010

‘Whole Lotta Love’, Palais Theatre (Melbourne), October 1, 2010

Photos by Russell Cherry

Drum Media Review by Michael Smith

Written by Administrator | 23 September 2010

‘WHOLE LOTTA LOVE’ Enmore Theatre 16/09/10

Tonight, we were gathered together for what was being dubbed a Led Zeppelin encomium, or "formal expression of praise", which proved just as diverse and surprising as many of those songs were when they first appeared on the nine studio albums the band released in the 12 years they were together.

Another surprise proved to be one of the most impressive interpreters, Zkye Compson-Harris channelling the voice of Robert Plant with an elegant ease that blew everyone away, particularly on her first performance, the slow blues Since I've Been Loving You.

That's not to say the male singers that came before Danny Marx Young, Ooh La La's Simon Meli, Dave Gleeson and Steve Balbi didn't deliver their songs with an equal passion and flair; it was just Compson-Harris came closest to Plant's tone, at least in the first half of the program.

She was followed by an equally surprising performer, the pint-sized powerhouse Ngaiire who, together with Compson-Harris and keyboards player Charmaine Ford, proved that while this extraordinary repertoire might have created by four white anglos-Saxon males, music of calibre, delivered with power and passion, recognises no gender.

Among the other singers who strutted the stage tonight, it was interesting to see how the younger ones Young and Meli delivered their particular contributions with a certain ardent respect, while the more mature group Gleeson, Balbi and the under-utilised John Swan, were more casual, playing with the expected stereotype of the male hard rocker. Gleeson ran around with his usual cheeky energy, while Swan looked on when he wasn't singing, like the genial father figure proud of his musical progeny. Balbi was gloriously iconoclastic, teasing out the clichés and then subverting them, letting the band take over for some extended soloing in Kashmir.

The band was truly impressive, even if it took two guitarists to deliver what Jimmy Page used to, at least live, deliver alone. Joseph Calderazzo was the guitarist most obviously in tune with Page, reproducing both acoustic and electric solos with astonishing accuracy, while Peter Northcote allowed more of his own dazzling personality to filter into his interpretations.

Everyone had fun and the punters left happy, having got their Zep fix for another year. In the end of course, it was just a cover band with some guest vocalists, but it was all delivered with such obvious reverence for the band and its musical legacy, with a professionalism to match anything in this vein being presented anywhere in the world, that to diminish the event would be churlish. A job well done.

Michael Smith