THE Australian Eagles Show are bringing their Dark Desert Highway Tour to The Capital Theatre next Saturday night.
The five-piece Eagles tribute band has played sold-out shows in theatres across America, Europe and Africa and are now back on Australian shores.
Band member Shayne Browne said the Eagles were a group that deserved a great tribute show.
“I just think the Eagles are timeless,” he said. “They cover so many different age groups.
“When I went to see them in concert in Brisbane, there were 80-year-olds and 18-year-olds in the crowd. Kids have raided their parent’s record collections, you know?”
Unlike some other cover acts that try to fully play the part, Browne said The Australian Eagles Show is all about the music.
“We’re not like a lot of tribute bands that have defined roles and they dress like them, behave like them and even try to talk like them,” he said.
“We don’t have individual roles as certain Eagle members, it’s the best person for the job. We do have a singing drummer and he does all the Don Henley stuff, but we mix it up and all the band sing.
“What we try and do is sound like the Eagles, that’s the most important thing.
“We want you to close your eyes, you know? That’s the whole idea if you close your eyes, it just sounds like the Eagles.”
For Browne, the Eagles are a band that invokes strong memories and that’s what he wants to reproduce for the audience.
“It’s all about taking you back to where you were especially for people of my age who grew up with them,” he said.
“I mean, I play the guitar because I was in the car with my mother when I was about 10 years old and I heard Take It Easy on the radio, and I said to mum, ‘that’s what I want to do’.
“It’s memories like that. I think of the first time I heard Hotel California or Take It Easy. I remember every single song and I know exactly where I was when I first heard them.”
The Australian Eagles Show plays The Capital Theatre on Sunday, 27 May, with tickets available via bit.ly/3BCsgBf.