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The Idol gossip on Wes Carr

Has Wes Carr changed his name to distance himself from Australian Idol or not?

2013-02-13_0119A strange story in News Limited today says former Australian Idol champ Wes Carr is performing under an oher name.

“People have a perception of Wes Carr. That’s not me,” he said.

“Ironically, I had to change my own name to release my own music.

“Meanwhile, I’ve got this Wes Carr thing hanging over my head that I have to kill off.

“I’m sick of that character. It is tainted.”

Yet on buffalotales.com.au it says:

Buffalo Tales is the new project for Sydney based singer‐songwriter Wes Carr.

Buffalo Tales sees Wes return to his organic singer/songwriter roots and is an intimate and natural fit with folk and alt country overtones that lets his music speak for itself.

17 Responses

  1. Just reading an article now saying that former 2000’s pop star Jade MacRae who featured on It Takes Two has changed her performing name to Dune…but because she wasn’t made from reality TV its a different story

  2. @gregaus – that’s quite funny but not very original. Just three of many:
    youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAA70E9E7F80F8065
    music.yahoo.com/camel-toe/
    myspace.com/cameltoeband

    You’ll prob not be too surprised to learn that ‘donkey dong’ has been done before as well – myspace.com/sirdonkeydongmacleod

  3. Wes Carr has just won the 2012 Best Male Artist award at the International Acoustic Awards

    Under his own name.
    It seems to me that he has shaken ‘the Idol thing’ but just hasn’t gained the same recognition in Australia as he has overseas. Maybe that’s what he is trying to say. The News Ltd. article is a bit confusing as to what he is getting at.

  4. I agree with Mr J. It was the sixth season of idol and he was 25 year old. Not young and naive. He probably wanted the exposure at the time to help his career from doing pub gigs. If he doesn’t want to be known as Wes Carr any more why is he letting everybody know this. Why not just play as Buffalo Tales and see who shows up to his gigs.

  5. This is nothing new and it is fairly common for singers and bands to perform under other names. Cold Chisel used to call themselves The Barking Spiders during some live gigs, the two brothers from Mental As Anything released albums under the name Dog Trumpet in the early 1990s, and in the early 1970s Spectrum performed as Indelible Murtceps when they were playing more progressive material.

  6. considering he was part of the 6th season he doesn’t have an excuse, should have known what he was getting into, the idol brand was always upfront about favouring to produce pop stars with mainstream appeal.

  7. Having seen Wes perform as Buffalo Tales, such a move suits him perfectly; his music (albeit not mainstream) is so much better than it has been when needing to full obligations of a ‘major’ recording company. Best of luck to him.

  8. I have heard a rumor that TEN are in talks with Fremanlte about bringing back Australian Idol. That would be absolute suicide!

    In a world of The Voice and X-Factor, Idol would seem so old and tiered, no matter which way you dressed it up.

  9. He was nothing before Idol and is nothing after, you can’t blame a TV show that gave you a boost for you failing, his material was just lacklustre and he doesn’t have star quality.

    1. There are many who have used Reality as a springboard, and the old tale of the Runner-Up doing better than the Winner is stapled into Idol (and even The Voice may prove this true too). Maybe the problem with winning is the presumption that a career will be handed to you, whereas ‘losers’ work hard to stay afloat?

  10. This is why I despise Idol/X-Factor/Voice and the like. It wrings out and poisons any credible semblance of talent from people who may actually have something good to offer. Carr may have had a well documented dive off the deep end, but his trajectory was fashioned to the nth degree to an outcome that drove viewers, not to shape and nurture a long lasting career that capitalised on his artistry.

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