NEWS

New addition to Victor Stranges & The Futurists

L-R: Victor Stranges, Frank Scalzo, Mike Dupp, Dave Leslie

Finally great to have the band together again. Victor Stranges & The Futurists welcome to the fold our rock 'n' roll compadre, Dave Leslie on bass for our upcoming Songs Of…

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Write up in Jimmy Hornet Magazine

L-R: Donna Cameron, Anthea Palmer, Victor Stranges

What a great evening celebrating the launch of my good friend Anthea Palmer's inaugural quarterly publication Jimmy Hornet Magazine. Lotsa friends food and beverages at Jimmy's HQ in Richmond (Melbourne, Australia). In good…

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The Birth of SATURDAY’S CHILD 

SATURDAY’S CHILD is Australian musician, producer-songwriters Victor Stranges and Frank Apicella.

Stranges and Apicella became acquainted when they separately attended a recording session run by legendary Australian record producer Mark Opitz AM at Thirty Mill Studios Melbourne Australia in…

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Victor Stranges & The Futurists

After a successful launch of the Elvis Costello Songbook show a couple of years ago at The Spotted Mallard, Victor Stranges has put together a group called The Futurists to perform Costello's catalogue as a band. "It's a real indulgence…

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Everyday I Write The Hook at The Drunken Poet

It was a pleasure to perform for the first time with wonderful Melbourne pianist Mike Dupp at the Elvis Costello Songbook evening at The Drunken Poet last night. Melbourne has a lot of Costello fans and we had a few…

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Launch Night - Everyday I Write The Hook

January 26th was the launch at the Spotted Mallard of Everyday I Write The Hook - Victor Stranges Plays The Elvis Costello Songbook. The show was well attended as Victor single-handedly presented over one and a half hours of pure…

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Everyday I Write The Hook...

Victor Stranges Plays The Elvis Costello Songbook

His admiration for Elvis Costello started when he played drums in his first serious band in the 1980s. It was a punk band playing a three chord country rendition of Oliver's…

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Pop Preservation Society - Live Show

It was only 2 weeks ago I had decided to make the leap and dedicate music as a full time pursuit. It's been an interesting journey thus far and people have been saying to me..."you should've done this years ago!"…

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Kennedy-Leever Blues Project

June 2018 - Me on the left with the Kennedy-Leever Blues Project (middle: Trent Kennedy, right: John Leever)

I recently played a show with a really good friend of mine, John Leever. I've known John ever since he was my…

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Update for 2018

I had taken a break from performing and recording for a while. The years tick away raising a family and keeping up with the day job. I've recently taken a break from work and I now have a renewed vigour…

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