I write the songs, sing, play the instruments and twiddle the knobs on the computer...
Influences
and inspirations... Bob Dylan, Dylan Thomas, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Nick Drake, The Saints, The Go-Betweens, The Triffids, Tactics, Peter Carey, Raymond Carver, Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, fiction, Bright Eyes, M. Ward, The National, Bon Iver, emptiness, Ry Cooder, David Lindley, Randy Newman, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Tom Sawyer, WB Yeats, PG Wodehouse, AL Kennedy, PJ Harvey, Mick Harvey, Crime and the City Solution, caffeine, Wien, Berlin, Veli Losinj, Dave Graney, Roddy Frame, Lloyd Cole, Edwyn Collins, Elvis Costello, XTC, The The, Leonard Cohen, open spaces, Giant Sand, Calexico, Lambchop, Iron & Wine, Neko Case, Smog, Mark Eitzel, Mark Hollis, Marc Ribot, melancholia, Patrick White, The Blackeyed Susans, Stephen Cummings, Steve Earl, Sufjan Stevens, solitude, Talking Heads, Television, Tim Winton, Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, Jim Jarmusch, Jim Webb, Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon, Townes Van Zandt, Van Dyke Parks, Van Morrison, vinyl, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Damien Jurado, Dirty Three, 16 Horsepower, Sparklehorse, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Tindersticks, Shane McGowan, Christy Moore, homesickness, Cat Power, Richard Powers, Richard Yates, Richard Ford, Richard Thompson, Robert Wyatt, Vini Reilly, The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary, Elbow, Radiohead, Portishead, Tricky, Pixies, Throwing Muses, This Mortal Coil, The Arcade Fire, anger, Lowell George, Steely Dan, The Cruel Sea, The Beasts of Bourbon, Charlie Owen, Louis Tillett, The Band, Bert Jansch, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Flannery O'Connor, Flann O'Brien, Cormac McCarthy, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Neil Young, Neil Finn, Elliott Smith, Patti Smith, Harry Smith, The Smiths, the sea, The Chills, The Verlaines, Flying Nun, silence, Joni Mitchell, Brian Eno, Arvo Pärt, Erik Satie, Glenn Gould, Cecilia Bartoli, Serge Gainsbourg, Jacques Brel, Scott Walker, The Oxford Thesaurus, Paul Kelly, Kate Grenville, Toumani Diabaté, Ali Farka Touré, Tinariwen, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Johnny Cash, John Lee Hooker, John Martyn, John Fahey, John Cale, Gene Clark, Roger McGuinn's Folk Den, The Byrds, Love, love, The Velvet Underground, Wilco, Will Oldham, Wim Wenders, wind, Einstürzende Neubauten, Robert Johnson, Skip James, Nina Simone, Lee Hazlewood... (und ein Achterl Rotwein...)
Sounds Like
... the breeze carrying the sound of a distant train on a hot night in a New South Wales country town ...
I was born in Muswellbrook, a New South Wales coal-mining and cow milking town northwest of Sydney. At the age of two I moved with my parents to Canberra, the nascent capital of Australia, Walter Burley-Griffin's folly: nice to look at, absolutely soulless, and deadly boring! My first memories of a looming music obsession: having Petula Clark's "Downtown" going round and round in my head for what seemed like months, and intensive interest in my parents' "Floyd Cramer Plays the Monkees" album. My first faltering steps toward actively making music: learning to play the ukulele with Father Frank Anderson in 6th class, culminating in a legendary performance of "Bottle of Wine" at the Dickson Senior Citizens Home Christmas party. Father Frank then showed us what the D, A and G chords on the guitar looked like (and for that a big, belated thanks to Father Frank!), and from then on there was no holding me back! Around the same time, my life was irrevocably altered on hearing a friend's older sister's copy of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits - there followed many years spent in my bedroom, trying to reproduce the sounds on Dylan and Neil Young, and later Ry Cooder, records, and my first tentative attempts at song-writing (most of which landed in the waste-paper basket..). In my late teens and early twenties, in Canberra and later Sydney, numerous band experiences, most of which were scuppered by clashing rock star egos, musical incompetence or a combination of both. Then many years of playing only for myself and a few friends. After moving to Vienna in 1993 (it was lurve!) I began again to take to the stages (well, "stage" is actually something of an exaggeration...) of various Vienna pubs ("Australian singer-songwriter" sounds exotic here...). After acquiring my home studio (ie getting a Mac with Garageband on it) in 2005, my living-room recording career began... I hope you like what you hear...
Would you like a lovingly home-made CDR? Just send me your address and I'll release the carrier pigeons...
Add to My Profile | More Videos A live version of my song filmed deep down in the basement by Martin Hiscox. (Featuring real blood and an unscripted car chase...)
Our latest single 'Set Me On Fire' is now available worldwide from all major digital stores and includes the exclusive remix by dance legends Utah Saints.
"I'm totally feeling 'em!" - Liam Howlett, The Prodigy
"Revolution is a massive tune!" - Rob Swire, Pendulum
"The missing link between Soundgarden and The Prodigy has materialised!" - Eddy Temple-Morris
Hello!!! We've had a fantastic time on tour in Germany this year and we're now recording our new album in Berlin (scheduled for release in March). But for now here's a big (and silly) Fröhliche Weihnachten! from us (and from some hippos too) :
Some bold new artistic direction? Nah, Just us being silly!!! We did this track for our label's "Black Snow - the completely different Xmas compilation".
Wishing you a very silly Silly Season and we'll see you again in 2010!
Hello!!! It's been awhile - sorry there hasn't been in any Australian shows for many months but we've been busy in Europe with a bunch of touring and we're now recording our new album in Berlin (scheduled for release in March). But to make up for it, here's a big (and silly) Merry Christmas from us (and from some hippos too) :
Some bold new artistic direction? Nah, Just us being silly!!! We did this track for our label's "Black Snow - the completely different Xmas compilation". (and of course, visit our youtube channel for a high quality version)
Wishing you a very silly Silly Season and we'll see you back in Australia sometime in 2010!
Hallo! Am 4.12. spielen wir wieder im Backstage in Wr.Neustadt - und haben das neue Album im Gepäck! Hoffe wir sehen uns? Übrigens, das neue Album "Learn to Swim" könnt ihr ab sofort auch auf Amazon.de vorbestellen! Es kommt dann pünktlich zum Veröffentlichungstermin am 4.12.2009 bei euch an!
I was in Vienna for 4 days in April through Easter. I can see why you'd be content there. We were a couple of blocks from Sudbanhof at the Meininger Hostel. It took us 3 months to go from Rome via Padova & Venice, Austria, Germany, France, England and Scotland to Oxford for a while and then home. All done with a sketchbook and no guitar or mandolin. Very twitchy at times..you know how it is. Cheers, AW
19EIGHTYONE REC. presents "City Of Last Things". Releaseparty diesen Mittwoch im Chelsea. Your are herzlichst invited. Ich schuld dir noch ein Album, by the way.
PIETER GABRIEL - CITY OF LAST THINGS (Debutalbum in stores now)
Heirstyle – With Suffering & With Christ "Heirstyle" ist das Musikprojekt der zwei Wiener Clemens Haipl (FM4, Projekt X, etc.) und David Pfister (FM4, Neigungsgruppe, etc.). 2005 veröffentlichten sie ihr selbstbetiteltes Debüt auf dem amerikanischen Label Comfort Stand. In Folge waren sie als Support mit Bands wie IAMX, Client auf Tour. Es folgten verschiedene Compilationbeiträge, Soundtrackarbeiten und eine 7" Single mit der befreundeten Band "Davos". Nach einer Tour, die eine Spur von verwüsteten Synthies und Blessuren hinter sich herzog, nahmen Heirstyle 2006 eine Pause um jetzt 2009 mit dem Album "With Suffering & With Christ" auf Hungry Moon Records, produziert von Per-Anders Kurenbach (Psyche), wieder ihren nihilistischen Electro-Glam abzufeuern. Heirstyle feiern am 25. September die Releaseparty ihres neuen Albums „With Suffering & With Christ“ in der Fledermaus Wien. Infos, Downloads, Rezensionsexemplare www.heirstyle.com
geile scheisse! ich lese vor. verschiedenstes. also recht praktisch, wenn man nicht selber lesen will. oder kann. cafe korb, 1010 wien, 11.9., 19.30 http://www.lachfestival.at/programm/41
