Russell Crowe, Alan Doyle And ‘The Musical’ Album… By The Indoor Garden Party.

Russell Crowe recently announced on his official Twitter account that ‘The Musical’ album from the Indoor Garden Party crew will be available for pre-order from the 28 April, 2017 and officially released on the 16 June, 2017. ‘The Musical’ will be available digitally and on CD and Vinyl worldwide. Those fans who pre-order will receive four new songs from the album in advance.

In other relevant news that has got the fans talking is Russell Crowe hinted he has been trying to organise an Indoor Garden Party in the coming months. Originally planned to coincide with the release of album those plans have now been postponed as there has been some difficulty in getting all the artists and musicians with busy schedules and successful careers in one place.

For those new fans who may be asking what is an Indoor Garden Party I have included a copy of some reviews and news articles that have happened over the years. The Indoor Garden Parties in New York at Joe’s Pub and the Gramercy Theatre attracted world-wide media when special guests appeared. Russell and Hugh Jackman sang songs from their movie Les Miserables. Most of those news articles include a few bootlegged videos taken by fans.

I have also included a copy of an article from an Australian newspaper prior to the Indoor Garden Parties in Australia in January, 2014 as it provides an overview of what has happened in the past for those new fans and a photograph. No copyright infringement intended.

I have also included a photograph taken from a video on the official Russell Crowe Instagram site from an Indoor Garden Party. As always no copyright infringement intended.

My favourite reviews are always by long term fans and this one is from Brian Kremkau from an online music review page ReadJunk.com because of the love and thought that goes into writing his reviews. No copyright infringement intended.

‘Rusty’s big gig: famous friends banding together’. By S. Singleton, published on 13 December. 2014 by the Coffs Harbor Adocate.

NANA Glen's favourite farmer is gifting the Coffs Coast a one-off holiday treat.

Russell Crowe is returning to his hinterland home and bringing with him some very talented friends.
The Oscar-winning actor is producing The Indoor Garden Party at the Jetty Memorial Theatre over four nights from January 10-13.

Coffs Harbour will be the only place in Australia to see the show, which has received rave reviews around the world.

The unique production has already been staged in London, St John's Newfoundland and recently in New York City at the Gramercy Theatre and Joe's pub.

Speaking from the location of the new film he is both directing and starring in, The Water Diviner, Russell said the Indoor Garden Party was about friends who loved performing getting together telling stories and singing songs.

"They are very informal parties and always full of laughs and when you have voices like my friends have ... spine-tingling is the phrase that comes to mind."

The show will have a focus on the songwriting partnership which Russell has developed with his friend Alan Doyle of Canada's prominent folk band Great Big Sea for almost a decade. Great Big Sea this year celebrated 20 years of touring and album sales topping 1.5 million units.

Apart from Russell and Alan, the line-up is best described as eclectic.

The Indoor Garden Party promises to be an enthralling evening.

As well as performances by Russell and Alan Doyle the show will highlight the talents of an amazingly diverse and acclaimed roster of artists.

They include; Samantha Barks who played Éponine in the film version of Les Misérables, as well as various theatre roles in London's West End, including the role of Nancy in Oliver. She has recently completed filming Dracula Untold where she plays the character Baba Yaga and is currently filming The Devil's Harvest.

American actor, voice artist and singer-songwriter Scott Grimes who has toured with everyone from Bob Hope to Michael Jackson;

Swedish songwriter and producer Carl Falk who has co-written and co-produced hits such as What Makes You Beautiful, One Thing, Live While We're Young, Kiss You (for One Direction) and Starships and Pound The Alarm (for Nicki Minaj). 

In 2012 Carl was listed as No. 4 on the Music Week Top 100 Songwriters of the Year; Irish brothers Owen and Moley O Suilleabhain who perform as Size2shoes who have performed with The Chieftains, Bobby McFerrin, renowned poet David Whyte, and violinist Nigel Kennedy; Scottish actor, piper and bandleader Charlie Allan who Russell met on the set of Gladiator where he played the famed leader of the Barbarian Hordes in the opening scene; and Queanbeyan poet and rapper Omar Musa who won the Australian Poetry Slam in 2008 and the Indian Ocean Poetry Slam in 2009.

It promises to be a show unlike any that has ever been seen in the place which Russell has called home for 17 years.

"It wasn't hard to convince anyone to come. The idea of spending time together and putting on a show is usually all the motivation any of them need but adding in that this time around it is in Coffs Harbour is a bonus," Russell said.

In addition, Russell said the line-up always features special guests which over time have included Sting and Hugh Jackman.





'Indoor Garden Party (Russell Crowe, Alan Doyle and Sting) @ Gramercy Theatre, New York.' by Brian Kremkau for readjunk.com (no copyright infringement intended)

Date: October 13th 2012 Other Performers: Samantha Barks, Scott Grimes, Kevin Durand, Size2Shoes and others.

It was an all-star night last night at Gramercy Theater for The Indoor Garden Party in New York City. Actor Russell Crowe and Great Big Sea’s Alan Doyle performed many songs off their album The Crowe / Doyle Songbook Vol. III, but they got help from their friends & colleagues Samantha Barks, Scott Grimes, Kevin Durand, and Irish group Size2Shoes. Oh yeah, and Sting made an appearance at the end too!!!

The show was sold out (I felt like I was youngest one there haha), and the club had a weird setup. I had general admission tickets, so my wife Kristen and I had to stand up in between the stadium seating in the back and the seats down on the ground. I wanted to sit on the side but apparently that wasn’t okay. Most people had seats and there wasn’t many people standing. We ended up being close to the bar. Camera crew was around including a big crane and tons of video cameras. I can see why I was turned down to shoot this.

Russell Crowe came out with a wireless mic and was leading the crowd in vocal warm-ups and making everyone sound like horses. It was weird and funny, and he performed a “Ol’ Man River” from Showboat. After that he asked Alan Doyle, Scott Grimes and others to come out and explain how they warm-up and get ready. They decided to sing “Hit The Ground and Run” from the latest Great Big Sea album to warm up to. After that, Russell and Alan went through their Songbook III album with the help of Samantha Barks on vocals. She’s also going to appear in Les Misérables as well, and had a beautiful singing voice not to mention she was just beautiful as well. They played songs like “Love is Impossible,” “Perfect in Your Eyes,” “Killing Song,” “Disappeared” and “Too Far Gone.” I particularly liked hearing “Killing Song.”

Throughout the night, others took the stage to sing as well like the Irish group Size 2 Shoes who were really funny & entertaining. Kevin Durand did some poetry jam type of thing that was kind of funny, Scott Grimes played keyboards and sang. Never really knew he had such a great voice. At one point, Robin Hood and his Merry Men performed Sean Kingston’s “Beautiful Girls,” which they did a lot of when they were promoting that movie. Besides what happened later, that song was the highlight for me. I was cracking up at the banter Russell and Alan were giving. Russell called Alan a 5 dollar whore because she’s always off writing with someone else. Alan said 5 dollars is too much, he’d do it for a bag of chips haha.

Middle of the show, Kristen tells me that actress Emma Watson (Harry Potter films) was like 5 feet from me. She never gets starstruck but when it comes to Harry Potter things, I guess she does haha. Actually, it wasn’t just her we saw, we were probably sitting next to at least 5 or 6 other cast members of the upcoming Russell Crowe movie Noah. They have been filming in Iceland and New York. I wasn’t surprised to see celebrities at the show, I was more surprised to have not seen any paparazzi. Guess they don’t read Russell’s twitter feed at all haha.

Towards the end of the show, everyone was just playing songs and coming back for encores. Russell played Bruce Springsteen’s “Highway Patrolman”, Scott Grimes did a few awesome covers of Michael Jackson’s “Man in The Mirror,” and Marc Cohn’s “Walking in Memphis.” Russell said he was kind of stalling because one of his friend that was coming down from the ’60s to play a song for us. He said it’s fucking New York so who knows if he will get here in time. Well that friend ended up being STING! Yes, that Sting. The crowd went nuts and Sting played “Every Breathe You Take” with Scott Grimes on the keys and Alan on guitar. That made the night for me! What a way to end the evening.