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ACOUSTIC SUPPER
THREE ACOUSTIC SINGER/ SONGWRITERS COME TOGETHER TO PRESENT A VERY SPECIAL TRIPTYCH OF SOLO SONGWRITING GENIUS AT MULLUM’S DRILL HALL THIS FRIDAY WITH SUZANNAH ESPIE, VAN WALKER AND MICK DALEY. MICK DALEY GAVE US A DOWNLOAD ON THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF HIS LIFE AS A MUSO. What is your greatest creative challenge? Writing songs that find the correct balance of popular appeal, literary significance and personal approval. It’s a tough mix. You usually don’t find out till you start playing them with a band, then the ones you thought were gonna fly end up nosediving and the obscure ones are the songs people respond to most. What about your greatest creative attribute? I think just writing lyrics that resonate with people. That’s been something that has stayed with me, when people tell me that such and such a lyric has meant something to them. The alchemy of combining words with music is something that songwriters strive to find, and when it works you can feel like a god for a little while. How would you describe your approach to songwriting? I give songs a lot of thought, mostly. Though sometimes they can come out in a great rude rush that doesn’t require any further deliberation; mostly I agonise over them, making sure I’m getting the right nuance out of words, and the chords I’m using contain the best emotion and impact. I write a lot of words, a torrent of bad poetry, and then refine ’em with a cynical eye, trying to inject as much savagery as possible. The acid test is whether they stay in my head for weeks afterwards, haunting me with endless recycling till I hate ’em sufficiently to finish ’em and start playing them live. What is your favourite ‘own’ song and why? I’ve got about five or six that are my favourites. Usually the latest song I’ve written is the favourite. But songs I’ve written such as Ballad of a Wrong’un, The History of Flies and Sick Sister are the favourites that have found the right balance and endured.
What about the songs or songwriters that have most influenced you? Bob Dylan was right there from the start, twisting my brain with ideas that went right beyond radio 2AY in Albury’s standard fare. He made me think you can take music into strange and astonishing new directions, and say the things you hardly dared think. That’s never more important than right now, with George Orwell’s 1984 taking off right underneath our feet now, and a neo-fascist government that has to be challenged on every level, every day, to keep these wannabe totalitarian power-hungry fools in the right place. Nick Cave is the writer who maintains the artistic anger and literary power in music today for me. Apart from him I listen to a lot of Australian writers – Jimmy Dowling, Liz Stringer, for starters, and Suzannah and Van are very much in the forefront of great singer/songwriters in this country today as far as I’m concerned. What is your favourite time of day for making music? It’d have to be in the night. I’m reminded of a gig out in the desert at dawn a few years ago, with the full sun rising straight into my face and a horrible desert flu to remind me of why gigs take place in dark subterranean holes. When you’ve sufficiently woken, dealt with the day and are able to bring matters into your own realm. What should we expect for your Drill Hall show? Three unique takes on songwriting and hopefully some gold where we get together on a few songs and find the sweet spot in them.
This Friday at the Drill Hall from 7pm. Acoustic / supper show. Tix $26.50 online at www.eventfinder.com.au.
ARCHIE ROACH AND MUSIC FOR THE MOB
THIS WEEKEND SEES THE STAGING OF AN AMBITIOUS AND INSPIRING MUSICAL COLLABORATION FOCUSING ON BRINGING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER THROUGH MUSIC. ONEMOB AND CPX MUSIC APPROACHED ELEN BUTLER OF MELON EVENTS AND MUSICIAN LAURA TARGET TO CREATE BUNINJ BOOTHRUM, OR ECHIDNA DREAMING. Can you tell me what was your inspiration for Buninj Boothrum? ELEN: Lewis Walker (Wahrlabal Bygal man) and Kobya Panguana (Mozambique, Africa) team up for the love and needs of the children and elders in their communities… in Kobya’s words: ‘This Durrumbul event is a mutual vision of Lewis and me, to help the children in our communities. We first shared this vision back in Lewis’s homeland during a corroboree at Rocky River Jabulum. This project is the fruit of this dreaming. Can you tell me what Buninj Boothrum means and why you chose to call the event that? ELEN: Buninj Boothrum is Wahrlabal language meaning Echidna Dreaming. The event is being held at Durrumbul Hall and the totem animal for that country is the echidna. This name was chosen for the event in respect for the original languages of this caldera and to call all people to gather together and honour our land of milk and honey. With this event may we celebrate a common dream of respect and love for all country and all culture. Why do you think music is so powerful in bringing people together? LAURA: Music is a language that everybody understands. It grabs the heartstrings, transcends all sense of separation and nurtures a sense of unity. How did you manage to get Archie Roach to come and headline? That’s a very big name for a country hall! ELEN: We were wanting an artist who would bring local elders from far and wide to the hall and when we thought of Archie we knew he’s the one! Archie Roach has family ties in this region with Lewis and others and is very supportive of this event. Uncle Archie would like us all to know that he is really looking forward to this gathering!
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