Essentially I am a solo artist. But as Oliver Stone once said "being a great director is not about 'being a great director'. It's about working with great people" (well I am not sure of the exact quote but you get the gist of it)
.. and work with 'great people' is what I have done. These 'great people' include: Ben Tolliday (bass/cello/loops/production), Richard Johnston (drums, backing vocals, vibe), Greg Cathcart (glockenspiel, piano, guitar, recorder, production), Luke Foran (backing vocals), Chris Pickering (drums), Emerson Bavinton (production), Adrian Mauro (trumpet), Rae Howell (melophone)...
Influences
Darren Hanlon, Bob Dylan, Art of Fighting, Gersey, Coldplay, Counting Crows, The Beatles, Bob Evans, The Thrills, Tamas Wells, REM, Radiohead, Augie March, Ed Harcourt, Sarah Blasco, The Shins, The Verve, The Kinks, Damien Rice, Jewel, The Who, Burt Bacharach, Grandaddy, Speedstar, The Sleepy Jackson, The Eels, Greg Cathcart, The Frames and many many more...
I write the songs that make the whole world sing. I write the songs of love and special ... no wait that's not me... that's Barry Manilow. Well I do write songs though. and maybe they don't make the whole world sing, but I know that I have made at least one young girl cry.. and not just because her cat had recently died. I am very proud of the songs that I have written, but as for my bio... well it's nothing special. Put simply...
I write songs.
When pressed for a description of my songs, my response is often 'suburban-folk'. I write songs about the little things and the bigger things. I write about life. I write about planes and jumping out of them. I write about small seeds. I write about tall trees. I write about standing on bindi and sleeping on clover. I write about clouds and raincoats and rainy days. I write about trams. I write about trains. I write about walking shoes. I write about Dr Suess novels and the fear of using public toilets. I write about inventors and explorers and that old t-shirt of yours that you just can't bring yourself to throw away...
I'm always looking for a new point of view and a new song to write. I record these songs in the hope that people will enjoy listening to them as much as I enjoy writing them.
Well I think that covers it.
Hi there! Special Patrol are going to be in Melbourne this Saturday the 24th to launch their brand new album The Stranger's Dozen. Come along to the John Curtin Band Room, say hi and have a beer with us! Cheers, SP.
I am back in Melbourne on Wednesday night for a very special
performance with the immortal Victoria Williams. We are playing The
Empress Hotel in Fitzroy. It starts at 8:00pm. So come on down and
spend an evening with us before Victoria bids Australia a reluctant
fare-the-well and heads back home to the beautiful expanse of the
Californian desert …
Hey Kelt- It was rest time for Dear Wife. Unfortunately it's not on the record, cos it's a different vibe. And I recorded the latest stuff in fancy studio, and dear wife was my home stuff, so they sound quite different, but I'm gonna someday finish the album with dear wife... love that you love it! How you doin? Been in Japan I see- How was that?
Hello, we're playing our first show in over a year and our first with our new lineup! Hope you can make it!
Thursday Nov 6th - 8pm - $6
The Empress (714 Nicholson St, Nth Fitzroy)
with The Fakes & Winter Migration
Also, visit www. triplejunearthed. com/theweekendpeople and download our new single 'Murder on the Mind' free, and while you're at it, give us a rating or a review. That'd be ace.
We’re playing a show in Melbourne this Friday night at Northcote Uniting Church. It’s the launch of our EP ‘The Open Sky’. We’ll be supporting Tamas Wells as he also launches his new album. Doors open 8pm, at 251 High St, Northcote. Friday 15th August
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