Define your genre in five words or less:
Southern Tasmanian contemporary folk.
Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like?
The above along with a six stringed acoustic guitar in standard tuning accompanying a youthful bogan tenor drawl.
What do you hate about the music industry?
That my friends have great songs and few hear them.
If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why?
My great, great, great grandfather who jumped a ship in county Cork aged thirteen and sailed three times around the world then landed in colonial Van Diemens Land.
How long have you been gigging and writing?
2,500+ days.
What part of making music excites you the most?
That when stripped to its core, ‘music’ is merely organised sound from vocal chords and hands. And the vibrations these make affect people who are listening to feel euphoric, depressed, sexy, tired, inspired or utterly indifferent, like of that from a traffic light.
Describe the best gig you have ever played.
I once played shows in nursing homes doing show tunes from the thirties and forties. If sound can be sweet, it’s twenty seniors warbling Bye Bye Blackbird.
What’s your favourite song, and why?
Idon’t have one but I like the way Darren Hanlon writes words and how people wrote melody during the major world wars.
CHRISTOPHER COLEMAN COLLECTIVE’s debut album is out now through MGM & Southbound.
