Daryl Braithwaite said he has no plans to ride horses when he comes to Kununurra in WA on Friday.
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The Australian music legend will be lobbing in the region this weekend to perform at the Kimberly Moon Experience.
“I was really excited when the offer to perform came up, I thought how good would that be,” the enduring pop star told Katherine Times today.
Daryl Braitwaite will be playing alongside former Cold Chisel front-man and working class man Jimmy Barnes.
“I haven’t been to Kununurra in about fifteen years, and to be able to play with Jimmy as well, I thought it would be fantastic,” the former Sherbet frontman said.
“We have played together a handful of times over the last decade.”
“They are expecting about 4000 people in Kununurra this weekend,” Braithwaite said.
“I don’t really get nervous, it’s weird, the only way it can really go wrong is if you are a bit crook, otherwise it is always great,” he said.
The outback town is located 40km across the Western Australia border.
The singer had 19 top hits with his band Sherbet and has had 15 as a solo artist for an incredible tally of 34.
He said festival goers can expect “the songs they know, maybe one or two from the Sherbet period, then material I have done as a solo act, and a few covers we always play, like The Kinks”.
The veteran artist will be arriving in town with his band at the end of the week.
“We are getting there on Friday afternoon, I don’t know what we will do, maybe go for a drive and watch the sunset,” he said.
On Saturday morning Braithwaite will be visiting the youth centre to perform for local Indigenous youth.
“We will have a chat and play some songs, it will be really fun.”
“We have a sound check at 11.30 and then the rest of the afternoon free, we will probably go for a drive somewhere but we have to be back to play at 7.30.
“Sometimes you just fly in, perform and fly out the next morning, so when the producers asked us to fly in a day early we were really keen,” he said.
Although he told Katherine Times he won’t be ‘riding on the horses’ in Kununurra, he will definitely be singing about them.
“It amazes me that Horses has been so enduring and endearing to people,” Braithwaite said.
“It has been played at weddings, funerals and sporting events.”
The Kimberly Moon experience will kick off its 17th year on Saturday, May 27 from 3pm at the Jim Hughes Amphitheatre.
Tickets are $111.65 and can be purchased here.
