ONE of the best-known live bands of the ’90s will make its way to Swan Hill next year.
Chocolate Starfish are set to perform a big Friday night show on September 13 as part of a national tour marking 30 years since their self-titled debut album.
Hits from that album and favourites from Box, Spider, Primitive and Beautiful Addiction will feature in a show the band tout as “spectacular”.
The Best of Everything tour aimed to give audiences everything they know and love about a Chocolate Starfish show – pure, unrivalled entertainment … and the joy of the unexpected.
The Fish, as the band is often referred by their fans, were only just getting warmed up, according to lead singer Adam Thompson.
“Our audience is the centrepiece of the Starfish experience,” Thompson said.
“We perform with them, not for them.
“They deserve the best of everything – so that’s what we will give them.
“In some ways we are actually bigger than what we were in the ’90s when we had radio airplay.
“In the last decade we have branched out into doing classic albums as well as our original material.”
Thompson took a hiatus from the band and pursued other projects, which included creating a musical program to run in Indigenous communities called Outback Tracks.
He said that in this time the band members all developed as people and matured.
Thompson said the upcoming tour was a two-and-a-half-hour show packing in everything recorded and played over the last 30 years.
“I think that the two levels of familiarity and unpredictability are something that attracts people to the shows,” he said.
“The strength of our band is that we are more song driven than style driven, so we don’t have any particular genre or formula that we adhere to.
“We are a band that delivers a variety of styles and the connecting factor is our energy and performing style.”
Hailing from Shepperton, Thompson has strong ties to Swan Hill, having cousins living in the town.
