Is this not a heavenly combination? A stage full of music and fine food and drinks. The Kingston Food & Wine Festival had all the right ingredients today, including sunshine, and I got to do two of my favourite things – play music and talk about great produce.
I have no idea what the architect intended, but to my eye this is a piano building. I like to imagine there’s a piano on every floor and a giant multi-piano work is performed every afternoon. Or maybe a resident pianist in the lift playing up and down all day.
The rest of the country spent the afternoon watching a bunch of blokes kick a football around a field this afternoon. The only. balls I was watching were the ones on the ends of my bass strings. I’m learning to bow and those big, fat bass frequencies are the audiological equivalent of sticky
You can sit around waiting for inspiration to strike, or you can look a song straight in the eye and work on it. I quite enjoyed the word association exercise I did this week and it resulted in a song. In the end I didn’t use a lot of the words on the
I joined an online songwriting club a few months ago. We have to write and record a song every week. Doesn’t matter if it’s good or not, you just have to write. Ten weeks later and I’ve written ten songs. Most of them are pretty good. Some of them need a bit more
There’s something really nice about forgetting that you met a wonderful musician and then remembering again at the perfect moment. I crossed paths with Icelandic singer-songwriter, Svavar Knutur, at the National Folk Festival this Easter. He came up in conversation tonight and I’ve been smoothing the bumps in my heart with his beautiful
I’m still in my dressing gown. I’ve not yet had a coffee. But I just snagged my pre-sale tickets to see Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings in Melbourne in January. I’m pretty excited about seeing these masters of the craft in real life.
Thanks for having me, Itinerant Spirits. It was lovely to play in your bluestone acoustics filled with lovely people, staff and punters. (Photo of post-gig happy face.)
I’m playing at Itinerant Spirits on Thursday night. As a distillery, they have a cocktail special matched with the musician. I flipped through my cocktail book looking for inspiration and found this page. The French Whore sounds very tasty!
The wind has dropped and the world seems calmer after wild stormy weather today. My house is beautifully quiet as there’s no-one else home. I’ve been noodling about doing a bit of cooking and cleaning in between practising. It’s quite heavenly.
Image: Gustave Leonard de Jonghe “Woman at the Piano with Cockatoo” 1870
