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B.C. Roadshow does dubvegas

29/10/2016

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Buried Country: Live in Concert has completed a first burst of gigs proper with a show at the Dubbo RSL as part of the Artlands conference/festival there on Friday, October 28. In front of warmly appreciative crowd that included such luminaries as Merv Bishop (the legendary first Aboriginal photojournalist), Ray Peckham (veteran Aboriginal activist of the 1967 Referendum campaign), NSW Deputy Premier Troy Grant (please just repeal these ridiculous throwing-out-the-baby-with-the-bathwater lockout laws: keep Sydney OPEN!) and Dave Mason (former Reels' singer making a rare appearance back in his hometown and with no less than BC MD Brendan Gallagher comping him), the show was loose and strong, and the full cast and crew celebrated with a slap-up feed as you can see below, before we take a bit of a breather now and start to map out next year. Thanks to everyone!
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Buried country roadshow video set completed

25/10/2016

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... with the posting of the fifth and final instalment... 
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another non-holiday in Cambodia

23/10/2016

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I am stoked to be just about to return to Cambodia for the second time in ten months, this time to attend the Kampot Writers & Readers Festival, to appear at numerous events, most notably presenting a screening of Buried Country as part of a film program that puts it in extremely flattering company. 2016 will go down as my year of Buried Country and Cambodia, of getting the BC stageshow on the road and of forging a link to Australia's neighbouring South-East Asia that I hope will be just the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship. Like many (Westerners) who venture to this part of the world, it's very easy to fall in love with it, and I am doing that - and I hope the feeling doesn't go unrequited!
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south of the murri

16/10/2016

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​The Buried Country roadshow rolled through Melbourne last week and what a week it was, a mad whirl of media, rehearsals and great general bonhomie, capped by two terrific performances in the sumptuous surrounds of the Recital Hall on Wednesday/Thursday October 12/13.
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Our first thanks must go to the Melbourne Festival, in particular Danni Colgan, for making the opportunity possible in the first place. We trust that this full-scale production is just the first of many more to follow in 2017 – and if the response is anything to go by, we feel confident that this will be the case. 

Once again it was just the great general good-humour and harmony among the cast and crew that made the whole thing so smooth and pleasurable. 

With two new singers to work into the set – Warren H. Williams, who’d been at the Tammy Sessions but was unable to make the Newcastle gig; and James Henry, replacing Franny Peters-Little, who together might constitute a sort of south-of-the-Murray/north-of-the-Murray tag-team representing the Little Legacy (there are many divides in Australia and many we will hopefully yet traverse, but the one marked by the Murray River is one that may ever remain inviolate!) – there was a bit to do in the studio.
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We all converged on Melbourne on the Monday, and I ran around a bit on the Tuesday doing radio interviews with Roger and Auriel at PBS, KND, RRR and even 3AW – thanks heaps to all those folks. You can hear the RRR interview with my old friend Dave Graney here. Then we went to scope out the Recital Hall, and all of us who’d never been there had our jaws just drop to the floor.
On Wednesday morning we awoke to a lovely little preview article in the Age that you can read here, and then we went to a reception at the Victorian Governor’s residence, and, well, wow… there were two ‘C’ words I keenly felt – colour, and class – but nobody was inhibited by that, and we were made to feel most welcome…
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At the Governor's pleasure: With L.J., Auriel, Roger, Warren and Barry Francis. Pic by James Henry
The set list came together as follows and we all feel it seems to be naturally evolving into a pretty elegant shape. The one all-new (to us) song was ‘Royal Telephone’, which had sort of started to seem a bit conspicuous by its absence, and so we thought it’d make a great singalong encore, and it did:
 
Western Wind (Warren Williams) – Warren
Raining on the Rock (John Williamson) – Warren
Ticket to Nowhere (Joan Fairbridge) – Luke 
Run, Dingo, Run (Black Allan Barker) – Buddy
Ghost Gums (Auriel Andrew) – Auriel
Arnhem Land Lullaby (Ted Egan) – Auriel
Brown Skin Baby (Bob Randall) – Leah 
September Song (Leah Flanagan) – Leah
Pretty Bird Tree (L.J. Hill) – L.J.
18th Day of May (L.J. Hill) – L.J. 
Blacktracker (Jimmy Little) – James
Yorta Yorta Man (Jimmy Little) – James
Wayward Dreams (Bobby McLeod) – Roger 
Streets of Tamworth (Harry Williams) – Roger
ENCORE: Blue Gums Calling Me Back Home (Harry Williams) – Roger/all
Royal Telephone (Trad. Arr.) – James/all
 
It was a great show on the first night, but if I was mildly disappointed by the audience reaction, which seemed a bit muted, all that was swept away on the second night when the crowd went wild.
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The shows were studded with friends old and new in the audience, black and white alike, though the attendee that might have been the most notable was Joan Fairbridge. Joan is the 90-something writer of ‘Ticket to Nowhere’, and until she saw Luke Peacock sing it that night she’d never before seen it performed live! She was absolutely chuffed and so were we, that she could make it along. 
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I have to make one point on a semi-down note: Exactly how L.J. hasn’t got publishers queueing up to sign him to a deal after Paul Kelly has just recorded a version of ‘Pretty Bird Tree’ on his new album is just completely beyond me…

​Handsome Steve Miller admirably hosted us for a sort of wrap party at his new House of Refreshment on Thursday night, while we waited, in true Broadway style, for any reviews to land. And you can read the gratifying response in the Age  here(thanks to Michael Dwyer, who’s shown persistent interest in the show and Buried Country generally) and at ArtsHub here. "A landmark concert," they said, "a compilation that should have wallpapered Australian households forty years ago."
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ONCE MORE WITH FEELING

2/10/2016

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Top piece on Buried Country: Live in Concert by the Weekend Australian's Iain Shedden, with photo above by Renee Nowytarger, read here.
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