 MUSIC
 TEX PERKINS : BLACK CATTLE DOG
Topping the list of quality musical acts set to perform at the event, TEX PERKINS is one of Australia’s most iconic personalities.
You may know of his work as frontman with ARIA award winning groove and roots specialists The Cruel Sea, and earlier in his career, Tex was the driving force in garage / blues band The Beasts Of Bourbon.
Other collaborations have included the super group of Tex, Don & Charlie (including Don Walker of Cold Chisel fame, and hugely respected guitarist Charlie Owen) as well as a recent record featuring You Am I’s Tim Rogers and Tex as ‘TnT’.
Tex’s performance at the Waterfront Food and Wine Festival also coincides with the release of his own ‘Best Of’ set.
Titled “Songs From My Black Cattle Dog’ Tex describes the retrospective as a record of a world weary journeyman spinning a few yarns, spilling some beans, spreading a few rumours and shedding one or two tears whilst stumbling through some of most joyous musical collaborations of his life with some of the world’s greatest musicians.
Don’t miss Tex Perkins in his only Gold Coast appearance at the Waterfront Food and Wine Festival.
THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS
 Adding more groove and roots flavour to this years line up, THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS have recently returned from an extended break and are now re-energised and demo-ing a new set of songs for an album release set down for early 2010. This will be the first time The Beautiful Girls have performed a Gold Coast show in over 18 months.
Centered around singer/songwriter Mat McHugh, the eclectic Australian rock group Beautiful Girls make rootsy, folk-inflected pop that has drawn comparisons to such like-minded artists as Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, and Mason Jennings. Formed in 2002, the band put out the mini-album Morning Sun and the five-track limited-edition EP Good Times before releasing their first full-length album, Learn Yourself, on San Dumo in 2003. A year later, the band released their second full-length studio album, We're Already Gone, and Ziggurats followed in 2007 which saw them tour to the UK, USA, and South America, playing intimate clubs shows as well as becoming festival favourites.
 DARYL BRAITHWAITE
Promising something for everyone, the stage at this years event will be lit up by one of the true legends of Australian rock, DARYL BRAITHWAITE.
Daryl's unique and emotive voice has captured a time and place integral to the Australian psyche and event attendees can expect a a set full of hits spanning his whole career.
Daryl first found fame as lead singer of Sherbet, notching up 20 national top 40 singles and the first Australian band to top the $1million mark in album sales in this country.
Songs like ‘Summer Love’ became the highest selling single of 1975 and ‘Howzat’ was not only a hit in Australia, but also in England & America.
In 1988 Daryl’s phenomenally successful solo album ‘Edge’ spent well over a year in the national Aria chart, peaking at #1 for several weeks. In 1989 it became the highest selling CD in Sony Music Australia’s history, spawning 5 hit singles including ‘One Summer’.
Daryl’s next album ‘Rise’ boasted a further 5 hit singles. The most popular was undoubtedly “The Horses’, holding the #1 position on the national charts over 3 consecutive weeks.
DIANA ANAID
 A pioneer of acoustic female indie rock, DIANA ANAID has become one of Australia’s most admired and respected original singer/songwriters and will be kicking off the entertainment on the main stage at this years festival.
Diana, since her self-financed CD with the national hit I GO OFF, with just guitar and voice, has remained an edgy, gutsy and original performer. Fans admire and adore the rags-to-riches rocker best known for her uncompromising lyrics, voice and energetic live shows.
Diana is a muso whose authenticity is so immediate. A cheeky and feisty palendromic entertainer, her hit songs engage listeners instantly; Her words speak of an obscene personal life journey while her voice carries you to beautiful heights of self-empowerment. With songs that cut right to a listeners soul with brave, unsparing views of everyday life, It’s clear why she has such a dedicated, intimate, loyal and large fan base
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