Ten bands everyone should know about:
Jeff Lang, Siskin River, Max Savage, Bob Brozman, Jamie Pye, Tom Richardson Project, Chase The Sun, Jay Fraser, The Flaming Lips & Jake Shimabokuro.
Nine food items that you need to make a kickarse dinner party:
Big breakfast dinner party with appropriately themed background music: bacon, eggs in all possible formats, mushroom, tomato, onion, sausage, coffee, Irish coffee, just straight whiskey…
Eight possessions that define you:
Just the one guitar I think…and maybe a few records from the collection.
Seven favourite movies/TV shows that go on your mix-tape:
I Love You Man, School Of Rock, RockWiz, August Rush, Dark Eyes, Into The Wild and Paris Texas (best soundtracks).
Six bad habits you can’t escape:
Tapping my foot to a song while driving, waking myself with six cups of coffee then not being able to sleep ’til daylight then sleeping for three hours then waking myself with six cups of coffee, crashing hire cars, missing planes, getting into cabs with no wallet and breaking guitars.
Five people who inspire you:
Bob Brozman, Michael Hedges, Judy Collins, Jeff Lang, most of my Family and friends.
Four things that turn you on:
Music, ’50s electric guitars, ’50s record players and playing music on those two things.
Three goals for your music:
To travel, have fun and stay alive.
Two live gigs you’ll never forget and why:
Geoff Achison at the Old Hepburn hotel last year. There were three people in the room including the bar girl, the sound guy and myself but he played like it was a packed out Hollywood Bowl. Also my dad’s band, the first gig I ever saw back at the Brogo bush hall when I was five.
One day left before the apocalypse and you…:
Jam with all of the above.
DANIEL CHAMPAGNE launches his new album The Gypsy Moon (Volume 1) at The Northcote Social Club on Saturday May 4.
