By Luke Voogt
Lara cover band guitarist and singer Daniel Bridge would spend weeks memorising a foreign song if it meant a rocking gig.
He did exactly that when Psy’s Korean chart-topper Gangnam Style came out a few years ago.
“I knew straight away it would become a massive hit, before it was huge,” he said.
“I just played it line by line and wrote down on paper exactly what it sounded like.”
Bridge promised his cover band Wooshka would put in a similar effort with a ripper show when it returned to the Sphinx on Saturday.
“People know to get in early when we play there,” he said. “We’re going to have a big night no matter what.”
He and mate Nathan Keti started Wooshka in 2010.
Since then the four-man band had developed a big female following with their playlist stretching across decades, Bridge said.
“Women like to dance so we play dancy stuff. If you have a lot of women the guys will come along too.”
The band were not afraid to have a bit of fun with hits like You Can Leave Your Hat On and Shania Twain’s Man I Feel Like a Woman, Bridge said.
“We’re not embarrassed to play stuff that other bands might not do.”
Unlike some cover bands Wooshka focussed more on entertainment than music, and never read songs off lyric sheets, Bridge said.
“Just go out there and sing – if you stuff it up, you stuff it up.
“People don’t go out to see musicians – they go out to have fun.”
