Harry Manx – 2016 Australian Tour

September 23, 2016February 5, 2020 Overheard Productions Interviews, Music general, Trad and Now Acoustic, australia, Australian tour, Bill Quinn, blues, Canada, folk, folk music, Harry Manx, interview, Melbourne, Mohan Veena, music, Mystissippi, New South Wales, Overheard Productions, performance, singer-songwriter, Sydney, tour, trad and now, Vancouver Island

harrymanx-header — *Image courtesy of Harry Manx*

To tell the story of Harry Manx would take several lifetimes, and hopefully a progression of life-form hierarchies over those lives to tell the story, because the story is so mesmerising and complex that we would not be very present and in the moment of most of those lives, and that could put the telling of the tale at risk as we would not be making gradual and continuous improvement as…

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Harry Manx performs at the 2012 National Folk Festival

Harry Manx has already begun his 2016 Australian tour which will take him from Sydney down to Victoria (where he is on stage tonight, Friday 23 September in Frankston) then around to Queensland, South Australia, Perth and up to Broome and Darwin, ending in the beautiful, lovely, gorgeous, I-may-be-a-little-hereditarily-biased New South Wales locales of Katoomba.

Ah, Katoomba. If there’s a more intimate, special venue than Clarendon Guest House, I want it stuffed, mounted, and hung above my fireplace – or I at least want an invite to your venue if it can go close to kicking the Clarendon into a cocked hat. Or any poultry millinery for that matter.

And finally wrapping it all up at Club Saffire in Merimbula.

So it’s a very eclectic path Harry treads, and look, I’d draw you a picture if I had a free hand, but imagine a much-twisted paper clip that’s been sitting on your desk all day on a slow Friday when you’ve been watching the clock since 9:36am – now you’re in the ballpark.

OR picture a moose that somehow wandered into your yard, found your sippin’ liquor in the shed, and is now making a bedraggled, loquacious, and somewhat winding stagger back to the forest by a circuitous route, two-thirds of it sideways.

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[VIDEO] The Great Overheard Productions Train Tomfoolery Continues: Tuesday Updates, September 2016

September 14, 2016April 24, 2020 Overheard Productions Interviews, L-Plate Learning, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized australia, Bill Quinn, chip butties, dogs, One of these things, Overheard Productions, police, Queensland Police Service, Queensland Rail, train, trains, Trouble at 't mill, Yorkshire

20160913_225308 — *Overheard Productions and the Queensland Police Service: trying to get our ducks in a row*

This ongoing police procedural drama/situation comedy is sponsored by the makers of the Matt Barker Radio interview on Overheard Productions:

https://overheardproductions.com/2016/09/12/audio-interview-with-matt-barker-radio-podcasts-and-digital-radio/

I’ve said it before and will keep saying it: you just cannot make this shit up!

Three days after the Friday night police incident where a whole passenger train was detained for ten minutes while members of the QPS swarmed around me at the Lota train station, and after many phone calls, I’m still in the dark.

I’ll give you the Wednesday updates later, but for now, here is where Ankerss Ahrr-Whey tracks down a neighbour of mine to find out what the heck is going on.

Garry briefs us for a short while until his meal starts to go cold and his accent ships off from north England to…. we’re not quite sure where.

And for those of you who saw the teaser, you know want some more of this:

(A little tip for amateur video-ers, Youtubers: if you’re recording a live performance, be sure to include even just a little of the applause at the end. Otherwise, it’s a bit like a door slamming shut in your face when you stop talking with a friend. I was going to go with a butt cheeks analogy; aren’t you glad I didn’t?)

And now that we’ve gone there, let’s go here. Muggins is there, front and centre at about 0:10. A time of my life when song just took me somewhere I’d never been before.

ENDS hopefully this century…

Police Halt Overheard Productions For 48 Hours: Sunday Updates, September 2016

September 12, 2016April 24, 2020 Overheard Productions Uncategorized

policeman — *Image courtesy of Shutterstock*

With less than seven hours before the Matt Barker Radio interview bursts out of the Overheard Productions media megalith offices, we’re getting to the bottom of the police incident on Friday night where Bill Quinn, the CEO, choir-director and head bird fancier of Overheard Productions was detained and questioned by members of Queensland State Police.

The incident was captured in song and performed the next night in Tokyo where ace reporter Phillip McKawfee-Khupp captured these images:

Somehow, via the magic of radio, during that song, Phil has magically appeared in Lota, Queensland and filed this report.

Phillip McKawfee-Khupp has taken up a strategic position on the lawns between the Redlands Performing Arts Centre and The Bench bar, ready to pounce on the next plod who comes out of the cop shop.

More details as they come to hand. We return you now to regular programming and ‘Policing And The Law Around The World’ focuses tonight on the UK:

ENDS

Interview with Matt Barker Radio: Podcasts and Digital Radio, September 2016

September 12, 2016October 22, 2021 Overheard Productions Interviews, L-Plate Learning, Music general Bill Quinn, digital radio, Essex, interview, Matt Barker, Matt Barker Radio, music, Overheard Productions, Podcast, radio, Southend, uk

Image courtesy of Matt Barker Radio

Matt Barker hails from Southend in Essex UK, which is a shame since most of the taxis won’t go further than Basildon.

(That gag was an entry in the Morris Men-tal Institute Joke Competition of August 1936 and told repeatedly until a cease and desist order from the Greater London Department of Public Transport and Sun Beds in February 1937.)

Where were we? Talking about Matt Barker and his two fabulous radio shows.

The Matt Barker Radio Show is two hours of finely-organised chaos, going out to the world on Fridays at 6pm UK time, available on podcast from Mixcloud.

While the Deuce Radio Show is a tight little package (careful!) of the best new independent music to tumble onto Matt’s desk.

In this interview, Matt talks with Bill Quinn of Overheard Productions about the mechanics and motivations behind these shows, plus his future plans for well-funded world domination.

Deuce Radio Show. Image courtesy of Matt Barker.

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Police Halt Overheard Productions For 48 Hours: Saturday Updates, September 2016

September 10, 2016April 24, 2020 Overheard Productions Interviews, L-Plate Learning, Miscellaneous australia, Idiot Wind, London, Matt Barker, Matt Barker Radio, Mothers, radio

On Friday 9 September 2016, at approximately 23:40, officers of the Queensland Flying Peleton Brigade boarded the train to Cleveland (which had been held at Lota station) and removed Bill Quinn.

Mr Quinn is current head of logistics for the Overheard Group, including big cheese of Overheard Productions and Tawp Dawg at Bill The Housesitter.

Mr Quinn was spotted later that night in the comfy chair at #36.

Right now he’s talking Braille, so please check back at 11pm on Sunday 11 September (London time), 8am Monday 12 September (Brisbane time) or call +61-555-000-000 (for a good time).

Bill Quinn
Overheard Productions
Capalaba, Redlands Council District, Queensland, Australia

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Month: September 2016