Name/Band:
Lucie Thorne
Ten bands everyone should know about:
Jo Jo Smith, Jimmy Dowling, Big Low, Kim Dellavedova, Pieta Brown, The Necks, Claire Jenkins Avec Band, Michael Hurley, The Millers Tale, and Sal Kimber & The Rollin Wheel.
Nine things you need to make a kickarse dinner party:
Eight good friends and plenty of wine.
Eight possessions that define you:
Loretta (my beautiful Guild Starfire)… that’s enough.
Seven favourite songs that go on your mix-tape:
Jorge Ben – Menina Mulher da Pele Preta, Bob Dylan – Slow Train, John Fahey – Tell Her To Come Back Home, Joni Mitchell – Hejira, Bill Callahan – The Drover, Pieta Brown – West Monroe, JJ Cale – Mama Don’t.
Six favourite books you’d take to a desert island:
Mikhail Bulgakov – The Master & Margarita, Maria Marcado de Assis – Helena, Toni Morrison – Sula, Truman Capote – Collected Short Stories, John Fahey – How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life, and an atlas.
Five people who inspire you:
Leonard Cohen, Peter Cundall, my Mum, my Dad, and MacGuyver.
Four people who could play you in the movie of your life:
Robert DeNiro, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn and the fella who played MacGuyver.
Three favourite games to play with your nieces / nephews:
Backgammon, Cibo (The Pasta Card Game!) and ‘MacGuyver’
Two live gigs you’ll never forget and why:
Sharing the bill with a couple of local hardcore punk bands in Bucharest and Transylvania last year… no room to go in to the details here… but… ah, you can use your imaginations!
One day left before the apocalypse and you…:
Sleep in.
When’s the gig / release?
Bonfires In Silver City album launch at The Bella Union at Trades Hall (upstairs, corner Lygon and Victoria St Carlton) Thursday September 29, 8pm.
