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Musical wannabe becomes buffalo soldier

13 Feb 03:40pm

Filed under: Australian Idol, Image, Music, Wes Carr

What’s in a name? According to Wes Carr, a lot. Who? I hear you ask. My thoughts exactly.

Not content with covering his guitar in old stickers to make it cool, this man is now having a personal image makeover too

The 2008 Australian Idol winner has been so tormented by the publicity (I use that term loosely) that generated the “character” of Wes Carr that he has been forced to perform under a different stage name in order to release his own music. That name…is Buffalo Tales.

Seriously. I’m not sure whether I should laugh out loud or laud.

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Bob says:

06:44pm | 13/02/13

Do you know the difference between empathise and sympathise mate? Read more »
JD says:

06:16pm | 13/02/13

Matt I think you’ve got this one completely wrong. It’s not uncommon for artists to release different music under different personas. “Wes Carr” will forever be known as an Idol winner and, as a result, will forever be expected to produce the music that shot him to Idol success. Obviously… Read more »

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