Define your genre in five words or less:
Folky/country/grouchy.
What do you love about making music?
I enjoy the freedom of making music. Any creative process fills me with a warm, satisfied glow. I like going to sleep each night knowing that something new exists, something that didn’t exist yesterday.
What do you hate about the music industry?
We probably don’t have enough space to answer that here.
If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why?
Townes Van Zandt. I’d be intimidated, of course, but I think we’d get along ok. And if he hated my songs, at least I’d have a drinking partner.
So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you…what do they say?
Wasn’t he married to Kasey Chambers?
What inspires or has influenced your music the most?
Music inspires me to make music. More than anything else. I always find that when I have little time to listen to music, I can’t make music. Many aspects of life contribute to the creative process, but for me, none more so than music itself.
When are you doing your thing next?
I’m always doing my next thing. I get confused and disconnected when I stop working. I have a live album coming out very soon, and my fifth solo album early next year.
What part of making music excites you the most?
The actual ‘making’ of music is what excites me the most about what I do. The creative part. The unrestricted nature of songwriting. The searching process of recording, and the satisfaction in finding what you’re chasing.
What part of making music discourages you?
Having to try and sell it.
What’s the strangest place you’ve ever played a gig, or made a recording?
On top of a rainwater-tank, in the middle of a field, with a spit-roasting pig below us. It was actually a pretty great gig, and I would do it again.
If your music was a chocolate bar, which one would it be, and why?
Maybe an Aero bar – I’d like to think it’s “the bubbles of nothing that make it really something”.
When’s the gig and with who?
Wednesday July 30 at The Melbourne Folk Club with Liam Gerner and Aluka.
