Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz, Donavon Frankenreiter, Ben Harper, Neil Young, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Pete Murray, Michael Franti, Damien Rice, The Kooks, Xavier Rudd, John Butler Trio, The Beautiful Girls, John Mayer, Newton Faulkner, Paolo Nutini
My family and upbringing remain in Australia incorporating a mixture of country Victorian childhood, Melbourne adolescence and a more recent injection of laid-back Queensland.
My Mum wants to be my manager and my brother is my best promoter. My Dad just wants me to get my arse into gear! I myself am not sure where the hell this path will take me but i know i love this stuff way more than working in a bloody office with the rest of the rat race!
Recently I watched about 300 people get off the tube in London, where i currently live, at about 6pm on the Northern Line all straight-faced heading home southbound from work. At the same time my good mate and budding sound engineer Pete Hope and i walked north, completely alone, immaturely pissing ourselves with laughter about nothing toward our northbound train to Camden to buy some funky looking sheets for our new loft studio.
Needless to say, this scene epitomised where I'm at with my chosen path and what i think all of us in the music/arts industry or self-employed hope to achieve if only complete personal fulfillment. Really we're just a minority with the guts to take a chance at the expense of often not pulling in a steady and comfortable income but with 100 times the passion and satisfaction in what we do! And believe me, it took me a few years of being an employee to work this out.
The truth is that it took the 2 of us this long to actually start getting things done that day as we're both probably guilty of waking up sometimes and helping ourselves to a small teaspoon of uselessness at the start of a day. We both felt a sense of laziness, but the reality is that, although I immediately could have felt a wave of guilt sweep across me, I felt nothing but an organic feeling of satisfaction!
The other truth is that this took me far too long to write. Probably over half an hour. that should have and would have taken most people about 3 minutes! I guess that's what makes me a song-writer and not a corporate CEO!
So my point... do what you love and don't make your career a 'job'!!
hahaha, nice. It was pretty funny... at the start of the scene James and I both go "hah, Tom Carty" as in.. hey, that guys looks like Tom Carty... then we kind of both leant forward and went, "hang on, that *IS* Tom Carty!" :p
Hello to all, Just thought we'd stop by and say thank you ,to all the awesome bands that have sent in their material which has been aired on the show throughout the years.
We have had an exceptional response through myspace from some of the most talented underground musicians in the world . It is your contribution to our show that show people that there are still actually real musicians out there [and rap is surely not damn music, neither is that techno crap].
Undergroundsounds airs throughout Australia Thursday/Saturdays p.m.
Bands that would like their music aired on any future shows can forward their material to the address below;
Undergroundsounds Program Manager 44 Bambil St, Crestmead,Queensland. Australia.
Cheers Tom! Have a good one Sunday at the Claham North. Seems we share a few gigs, we're there Friday! Keep up the good work fella. Must hook up for a few beers soon. Chad
Hope you are well yeah? Just thought we'd pop you a little note that after our extended hiatus and travels overseas we are finally back with new songs Stop by and have a chat sometime soon yeah?
please will u invite me again, if im not on your gig list? i used to be, i got ur updates, but dont now and i ignor some invites without lookin at em sorry! im still travlin at the moment, in oz! ha ha! im back march and would love to come to a gig. i wasnt home long and wasnt around london when u had gigs. and i wana get gigin when im back too. take care. hope its all going well x
howiye loviee!!! sounds like you're still living it up...so jealous! melbourne is class. was at the grad prix and kiss concert paddy's weekend. fook me...some fun! well im loving aussie bro...missin my chopper boys and late night beach bar crawls! gotta get me a job, then a decent guitar and we'll see about myself and louie entertaining the melbournites! Raar!!! when you home yonder?
tommyyy wow its been a while! hows you going!! guess what - me and charlie are coaching the year 8/9 afl team this year haha we have no idea what were doing :P just trying to remember all the drills you taught us once upon a time! Hows overseas, when are you planning to come back to Aus? And looove the Aussie Rules song, I added it to my myspace to keep your promotion up hope all is well love jess
Thanks for the b’day wishes. How is life os treating you? How long are you back in Bris for – let me know if you get time to say hi. Hope you are having fun.
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