Photo ~ Peter Dalgleish
Happy New Year to all.
Hoping that 2021 is at least slightly more predictable and a little more stable than 2020 ~ a year most of us would like to forget.
We were very lucky to have been kept busy and creative with writing and recording Song Gifts and releasing this unusual double album of ours. Great to have had some community radio support also. Thank you. The album is now available at Readings [Carlton], Rocksteady, Basement Discs, Greville [Melb], Redeye [Syd], Dada and Diabolik [Perth] as well as online here ~
M E L B O U R N E
Rehearsals with ‘Evil’ Graham Lee [pedal steel], Shane O’Mara [guitars] and Rosie Westbrook [double~bass] are imminent and we look forward to bringing you a mix of the songs from Song Gifts, Sparrow & Swan and Wounded Bird ~ live on Saturday January 23 at MEMO MUSIC HALL ~ my first show of the year ~ it’ll be the very first show of this line-up.
Up close and personal tickets 🎫 along with streaming to the big wide world 🌍 [stream available for 48 hours post-show] ~
S Y D N E Y
Fingers crossed the double-bill shows [s o l o] with Peter Milton Walsh [The Apartments] will go ahead at DJANGO late February ~ with the blessing of open borders and COVID dependent. PMW and I played two sold out shows in Melbourne last year and enjoyed the moments so much we thought it would be worth taking the show elsewhere. Django Bar tickets available here ~ there’s options for early and late shows.
C A N B E R R A
Whispers of a Canberra show being on the cards in May at The Polish White Eagle Club [aka THE POLO] have now been confirmed. Performing Saturday May 22, tickets 🎫 available here ~ (on sale from Jan 20)
The new Apartments album “In And Out Of The Light” was a favourite release of mine last year and has appeared in many musicians' top tens.
T R U C K L O A D O F S K Y
[A celebration of the songs of the late David McComb]
Sadly the Truckload Of Sky shows in WA and NSW have again had to be postponed. Understandably no-one wants to be stranded out of their home state or have to isolate for weeks. Shame, but we’ll get to most places later this year...we hope. In the meantime I thought I’d share a video of the very first time I sang on tv 📺 ~ which happened to be with The Triffids. Dave McComb asked me to sing bvs, when they performed Trick Of The Light on Clive Robertson’s late night Newsworld program in Sydney, circa 1988 ~ just after the release of Calenture. I’m the really awkward looking guy in the background, pre facial hair and COVID kilos ~
See you soon ~ Rx