Lucas Dawson was born and raised in Western Australia. At age 15 he was bullied into buying a bass at the insistence of a guitar-playing friend who suggested that the two of them could put a band together.
Lucas played around Perth in various garage band combinations, even playing in a jazz poetry ensemble a short while, and spent a great deal of time writing short stories and film manuscripts. He got his heart broken at the age of 20 in a spectacular case of naiveté and fled to Europe shortly thereafter.
During four subsequent years in London – where he ended up running a cinema in Camden Town – he played very little music, instead spending increasingly more time writing prose and hanging out in dingy bars and nightclubs.
Following the call of a promising romance, and enchanted by the wild notion that he might be ready to write a novel, Lucas moved to Stockholm. He began playing bass again shortly after, and began singing – if extremely tentatively at first. He played in several outfits – ranging from noisy electro rock to straight pop to dinner jazz – for varying lengths of time, sometimes just standing in on bass on short tours or for single gigs. Several demos, and a full-length record (with instrumental agent-rockers Kalamare Beat Club), were released. Nothing happened. Lucas waited tables and swept floors.
The transition to a new country took its predictable toll. Engulfed by a foreign language, a small fish in a big new pond again, Lucas succumbed. His debut novel was abandoned half-way through. The once-promising romance hit unforeseen bad trouble and began a slow, inevitable implosion. Nobody’s fault, or everybody’s fault, or just one of those things. Ugly times.
Amidst the wreckage Lucas found burning inspiration. He would write and record a brutally honest break-up album, but quickly. No more waiting around for all of the usual endless rehearsal and slowboat demo-recording and begging for gigs and waiting for record contracts that never come. Just throw a band together and do it. Right Now. While the tears are still hot.
Lucas Dawson’s debut solo album Another Way To Say Goodbye is out soon.
In celebration of the Walkabouts' 25th anniversary there is a tribute album released by Glitterhouse on September 25th containing Unholy Dreams by Gary Heffern & Beautiful People:
In celebration of the Walkabouts' 25th anniversary there is a tribute album released by Glitterhouse on September 25th containing Unholy Dreams by Gary Heffern & Beautiful People:
By the way, Sweden is such an amazing place. I have family in southern Sweden and in Oslo. I visited a couple years ago and it reminded me so much of my home town.
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