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SWEET
SOUNDS: HMAS Anzac’s band plays at the Turkish Mosque
Conservatorium Rethymno, Crete as part of their Northern
Trident tour.
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Photo:
POPH Damian Pawlenko
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By
LEUT Rachel Irving
Australian
tourists and expats would be forgiven for thinking they had
stumbled onto a little piece of Australia when the sounds
of Land Down Under filtered out from Crete’s Venetian Arsenals
this week.
In the 400 year old stone building once used for ship construction,
the band detachment from HMAS Anzac took to the stage for
a concert designed to give the Greeks a taste of Australian
music.
The eight members sang up storm for the audience playing traditional
marches, jazz and of course plethora of Australian rock.
I/C of the band, POMUSN Kara Williams said, “The acoustics
were fantastic inside the Arsenal.”
“We weren’t sure how responsive the crowd would be to the
Australian music but once they started clapping and joining
in we knew that’s what they had come to hear.”
In fact the locals enjoyed the music so much that the band
received cries of ‘encore’ at the end.
They then treated the crowd to the ship’s song, AC/DC’s Long
Way to the Top leaving audience members happy but still wanting
more.
The band also performed another concert in Crete at the Conservatorium
at the Turkish Mosque in Rythmno. HMAS Anzac is visiting Crete
as part of her Northern Trident deployment.
