Blue King Brown Water video, Live Earth Australia
By Jenny May on May 17, 2007 in Bands, Music, Videos | Tags: Australia, Blue King Brown, Bob Marley, Carlo Santone, Damian Marley, Festivals, Going Green, Live Earth, Melbourne, Michael Franti, Music, Musicians, Natalie Pa'apa'a, Pete Seeger, Politics, Reggae, Roots, Santana, Sydney, Tour Dates, Water, youtube, Zack de la Rocha

Blue King Brown. Yes – that’s right – Blue King Brown. Savor the words, roll them around a few times and if in fact you haven’t heard of Blue King Brown before then this will probably not be the last time.
Based in Melbourne, Australia, Blue King Brown is a band with a message. Their lyrics are politically tinged and their sound, as bassist Carlo Santone said during an interview last year, is “inspired by music from around the world”. They want to do something new to the roots genre and bring a contemporary edge to it. I think they’ve succeeded here – and are probably one of the best bands to go out and see play live.
With their music and politics in mind I feel comfortable including singer Natalie Pa’apa’a and Blue King Brown in a similar category as Bob Marley, Zack de la Rocha, Santana and Pete Seeger. They’ve toured with other jam band, world roots and reggae bands such as Michael Franti, John Butler Trio, The Cat Empire and Damian “Jr Gong” Marley.
Watch the Blue King Brown video for “Water” (Off of their Stand Up album)
Blue King Brown is set to play Live Earth in Sydney, Australia on July 7, 2007.
Blue King Brown 2007 tour dates are as follows:
*Dates could be added or changed. Go to Blue King Brown’s Official Website for the latest tour dates and information.
May 20 2007 GREENROOM FESTIVAL (OSAKA) OSAKA (JAPAN)
May 21 2007 CLUB QUATRO-NAGOYA NAGOYA (JAPAN)
May 26 2007 GREENROOM FESTIVAL (YOKOHAMA) YOKOHAMA (JAPAN)
May 27 2007 DUO MUSIC EXCHANGE (SIDE SHOW) TOKYO (JAPAN)
Jun 9 2007 THE DREAMING FESTIVAL WOODFORD, Queensland
Jul 3 2007 MAKE POVERTY HISTORY: ZERO SEVEN ROAD TRIP BENDIGO, Victoria
Jul 7 2007 LIVE EARTH SYDNEY
Aug 4 2007 SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS BYRON BAY, New South Wales
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2 Comment(s)
By bob marley fan on Nov 28, 2007 | Reply
Nice video, I saw it for the first time.
By mike meeds on Mar 23, 2008 | Reply
watched most of live earth and was extremely impressed with blue king brown.never heard of them before but i thought they were the best band of the live earth performance,and i seen most of the big name bands.is there any place to get the bkb live earth performance?