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12th February
There was a moment back there at Tamworth when some of the Pickers were trying to get some of the other Pickers excited about driving down the main drag on top of a tank during the festival parade. There we could have been between the brass band,the other brass band, the girls in the ute selling binge drinking as a lifestyle choice, another brass band, the blokes with the hats, the blokes with the eskies, the blokes with the esky shaped hats, the hat shaped eskies and so on.
By ..."and so on" I mean ... THE BRIDE AND GROOM PONIES!
I have been to the mountain top ladies and gentlemen and it's name is Tamworth.
I HEART TAMWORTH!
I heart Tamworth for the hospitality served up to the Wilson Pickers by the good folk at the Tamworth Hotel.
I heart Tamworth for the kindness and brilliance of Kevin Bennett and his band The Flood.I heart Tamworth for room six.
I heart Tamworth for the Billy Ray Cyrus look alike with his enormous sausage head, hands free headset, great big white guy hat and gig that fell somewhere between a one nation party meeting and a family first revival. He was baptizing people!
I heart Tamworth for the Perch Creek Family String Band and their abject greatness. Dad on upright bass, Mum on piano, tap dancin Thirteen year old on uke and guitar and singin,Twelve year old on drums and washboard and singin, One legged eight year old on (brilliant!) harmonica , trombone and singin AND four year old on absurd cutness and singin. I want these people to play at my funeral. In fact I think I just want them to follow me around the supermarket for the rest of my days.
I heart Tamworth for the main drag.The Japanese cowboy;The blind cowboy;The wrongtown child cowgirl with the way too loud P.A. and morbidly obese showbiz mum getting rich and smokin ciggies up the back; The guy who had video taped his busking show and simply installed a T.V. and V.C.R. on the street, pressed play and gone to the pub; The bloke who had a C&W ventriloquist act featuring a real stuffed deer with moving eyes and mouth and twitching ears.
I heart my friends and collegues The Wilson Pickers
and
I heart Tamworth.
12th February
There was a moment back there at Tamworth when some of the Pickers were trying to get some of the other Pickers excited about driving down the main drag on top of a tank during the festival parade. There we could have been between the brass band,the other brass band, the girls in the ute selling binge drinking as a lifestyle choice, another brass band, the blokes with the hats, the blokes with the eskies, the blokes with the esky shaped hats, the hat shaped eskies and so on.
By ..."and so on" I mean ... THE BRIDE AND GROOM PONIES!
I have been to the mountain top ladies and gentlemen and it's name is Tamworth.
I HEART TAMWORTH!
I heart Tamworth for the hospitality served up to the Wilson Pickers by the good folk at the Tamworth Hotel.
I heart Tamworth for the kindness and brilliance of Kevin Bennett and his band The Flood.I heart Tamworth for room six.
I heart Tamworth for the Billy Ray Cyrus look alike with his enormous sausage head, hands free headset, great big white guy hat and gig that fell somewhere between a one nation party meeting and a family first revival. He was baptizing people!
I heart Tamworth for the Perch Creek Family String Band and their abject greatness. Dad on upright bass, Mum on piano, tap dancin Thirteen year old on uke and guitar and singin,Twelve year old on drums and washboard and singin, One legged eight year old on (brilliant!) harmonica , trombone and singin AND four year old on absurd cutness and singin. I want these people to play at my funeral. In fact I think I just want them to follow me around the supermarket for the rest of my days.
I heart Tamworth for the main drag.The Japanese cowboy;The blind cowboy;The wrongtown child cowgirl with the way too loud P.A. and morbidly obese showbiz mum getting rich and smokin ciggies up the back; The guy who had video taped his busking show and simply installed a T.V. and V.C.R. on the street, pressed play and gone to the pub; The bloke who had a C&W ventriloquist act featuring a real stuffed deer with moving eyes and mouth and twitching ears.
I heart my friends and collegues The Wilson Pickers
and
I heart Tamworth.
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8th January
Text message read out on the Radio National Broadcast of the Boxing Day Test .
"At the Woodford Folk Festival with Bands The Wilson Pickers and The Gin Club.
Cricket is keeping us sane in a sea of hippies and dreadlocks."
The author was Ben Salter, banjo tamer in the Wilson Pickers and no small part
of The Gin Club. This short verse pretty much captures the week we "shared the energy."
What a lovely bunch of people play cricket near.
All the best for 2009
Sime
(image linked from ABC Grandstand.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
17th December
Gday shoppers!
Neglecting my retail responsibilties to wish yall all the peace and quiet you wish
for this summer.
Thanks for all the feed back about this wee window here and the LIVE AT THE EAST
experiment.
I might actually have prefered to have stabbed myself repeatedly in the eye at the
thought of ...b... b... blogging (THERE I SAID IT) but the java monkeys have held my hand (over
the fire) and I reckon we will be doing more of this in the new year.
For your amusment here is an interview from the Queenscliff festival via ABC Dig website.
I will be off to Woodford Fest and Tamworth till the end of January so will post something fortnightly till 2009 really begins proper in Feb.
I reckon next year will include a truly solo record which I am hoping to record in the Yearlings South Australian hide away(Tape Machine!) ; a festival of music at the mystical lot 19,Castlemaine in March; another album and more touring from the Wilson Pickers; Solo trips to Canada and Europe (June & July) ;
AND more of that zany download stuff right here...
Thanks and Best Wishes.
Sime
8th January
Text message read out on the Radio National Broadcast of the Boxing Day Test .
"At the Woodford Folk Festival with Bands The Wilson Pickers and The Gin Club.
Cricket is keeping us sane in a sea of hippies and dreadlocks."
The author was Ben Salter, banjo tamer in the Wilson Pickers and no small part
of The Gin Club. This short verse pretty much captures the week we "shared the energy."
What a lovely bunch of people play cricket near.
All the best for 2009
Sime
(image linked from ABC Grandstand.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
17th December
Gday shoppers!
Neglecting my retail responsibilties to wish yall all the peace and quiet you wish
for this summer.
Thanks for all the feed back about this wee window here and the LIVE AT THE EAST
experiment.
I might actually have prefered to have stabbed myself repeatedly in the eye at the
thought of ...b... b... blogging (THERE I SAID IT) but the java monkeys have held my hand (over
the fire) and I reckon we will be doing more of this in the new year.
For your amusment here is an interview from the Queenscliff festival via ABC Dig website.
I will be off to Woodford Fest and Tamworth till the end of January so will post something fortnightly till 2009 really begins proper in Feb.
I reckon next year will include a truly solo record which I am hoping to record in the Yearlings South Australian hide away(Tape Machine!) ; a festival of music at the mystical lot 19,Castlemaine in March; another album and more touring from the Wilson Pickers; Solo trips to Canada and Europe (June & July) ;
AND more of that zany download stuff right here...
Thanks and Best Wishes.
Sime
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26th November
Hi Y'all,
So we were able to pin down Sime and Andrew as they are gearing up for the Queenscliff festival this weekend and have a laugh and chat about what’s it like touring with the Wilson pickers and who the heck are they anyway!
Click the player to here Part 1
Get in the Box... musician behaving well?
Click the player to here Part 2
Click the player to here Part 3
He is Sime and I'm not,
Cheers and See ya next time!
26th November
Hi Y'all,
So we were able to pin down Sime and Andrew as they are gearing up for the Queenscliff festival this weekend and have a laugh and chat about what’s it like touring with the Wilson pickers and who the heck are they anyway!
Click the player to here Part 1
Get in the Box... musician behaving well?
Click the player to here Part 2
Click the player to here Part 3
He is Sime and I'm not,
Cheers and See ya next time!