Mikelangelo and the Tin Star, ANU Bar, Friday 11 May 2012

May 10, 2012September 22, 2014 Overheard Productions Interviews, Music general ANU Bar, Canberra, Mikelangelo and the Tin Star

Mikelangelo and the Tin Star

ANU Bar, Friday 11 May 2012

Mikelangelo talks about sun, surf, western and sprouting new growth in the Melbourne autumn

Mikelangelo and the Tin Star will be making a much-awaited appearance at the ANU Bar in Canberra on Friday 11 May 2012. The night before, Mikelangelo joined Bill Quinn on Nikolai Blaskow’s Disc Drive show to chat about the gig and many other things.

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Click the link to hear the interview and get all the links to all the support bands.

That’s the official video, and a lot smoother than the very rough one I took on a dodgy camera phone last year at Tilley’s. My version DOES however feature a Go Girl Gadget Go dancer falling into the front row, so there’s that! CORRECTION: the pitching into the front row was on a previous track. No Go Go dancers were harmed in the making of this video clip.

See you at the ANU Bar.

Pete Akhurst plus Minh Ha at Beyond Q bookstore and cafe, Curtin (ACT)

May 9, 2012September 22, 2014 Overheard Productions Interviews, Music general Beyond Q, interview, Minh Ha, performance, Peter Akhurst

Pete Akhurst

Beyond Q bookstore and cafe

Support: Minh Ha

4pm, Saturday 12 May 2012

I recently had the pleasure of doing my first guerrilla interview with the very savvy, very switched-on and very talented Pete Akhurst.

So it was great to see that he’ll be doing a gig, up close and personal this Saturday in the very intimate surrounds of Beyond Q bookstore and cafe, downstairs in the Curtin Shops.

Pete will be playing songs off his EP ‘Footprints’ plus some new stuff, plus introducing his colleague in song and music, Minh Ha.

It’s free, but you can show your appreciation by throwing some money into the jar and maybe buy a copy of Pete’s very fine CD, ‘Footprints’.

Listen to my guerrilla interview with Pete here:

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And see you on Saturday afternoon at Beyond Q in Curtin.

Here are some more links:

Pete Akhurst on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/peteakhurstmusic

Pete Akhurst on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/peteakhurst

Beyond Q bookstore and cafe on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Beyond-Q-Books-Bar-Barista/151201208289970

Paul Greene guerrilla interview: on tour around Australia

May 8, 2012September 22, 2014 Overheard Productions Interviews, Music general Culburra Beach, folk, interview, Paul Greene, performance, The Front

Paul Greene on tour around Australia

In Canberra on Thursday 10 May

The Front Café and Gallery

Paul Greene is making his way around Australia, and on the digital version of two cans with a bloody long string between them, Bill Quinn caught up with Paul on the road as he motored from Port Lincoln, South Australia towards Melbourne for a TV appearance.

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Kim Churchill guerrilla interview: on the road and out of the surf

May 8, 2012September 22, 2014 Overheard Productions Interviews, Music general blues, Kim Churchill, performance, Transit Bar

Kim Churchill (image by James Looker Photography, http://www.jameslooker.com/)

Kim Churchill is on the road and coming to Canberra

Thursday 10 May 2012, Transit Bar, Canberra

Bill Quinn caught up with Kim Churchill on the road and on the phone, and fresh out of the surf.

Hear what Kim’s been up to and what to expect when he lobs into Canberra (or to your part of the world, for that matter).

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A Punter’s Perspective #32 — The Artists’ Shed, Queanbeyan

May 4, 2012June 29, 2012 Overheard Productions Interviews, Music general folk, performance, Queanbeyan, The Artists' Shed

The Beez at The Artists' Shed, February 2012 — The Beez at The Artists’ Shed, February 2012

A Punter’s Perspective

Random observations on the wide, weird world of folk from the side of the stage

#32 Take one large shed, add art and music. Mix and serve.
First published in Trad and Now magazine, February 2012

At a time when venues are closing and festivals are either taking years off or simply disappearing off the calendar, it’s heartening to hear when a café/restaurant throws open its doors to live, original music or another venue opens.

A relative newcomer to the Canberra/Queanbeyan melange of venues is The Artists’ Shed, a large ramshackle and rustic barn of a place plonked in the middle of an industrial estate on the eastern side of Queanbeyan (or Quangers as it’s affectionately known in some circles).

It’s not exactly where you’d expect to find a home for music and the arts. Even the directions to get there raise an eyebrow or two: ‘Head up Yass Road, turn at Magnet Mart, go left, go right and look for the big shed with the Bogong moth on the side’.

Right.

Kicking off in April 2011, the Shed Sessions brought a trickle of local talent in which soon became a torrent and they’re pretty solidly booked into 2012. With the burgeoning numbers has come a rise in press coverage, and the profile of the artists performing, but always with a place for home-grown Queanbeyan and district talent. Continue reading →

The Beez are buzzing their last in Australia for 2012

April 28, 2012January 14, 2013 Overheard Productions Music general folk, Germany, on tour, performance, The Beez

The Beez are buzzing their last in Australia for 2012

Last chance to see this weekend at Mount Beauty Music Festival, Victoria

Regular visitors to Australia, The Beez, will be having one last hurrah at the Mount Beauty Music Festival this weekend in Victoria then wending their way back for a fly out to home later this week.

So take one last chance in Victoria or join them in cyberspace and buy up all their albums:

* ‘Look What They’ve Done To My Song’ is a fresh take on other people’s stuff, and

* ‘Freishcwhimmer’ is all there own — that spelling may be dodgy — can’t find a reference right now and my battery’s about to go kaput!

www.thebeez.de

Listen to the music of The Beez

My article in 2009 on The Beez tour:

https://overheardproductions.com/2012/03/15/a-punters-perspective-16-the-beez-portrait-of-a-band-at-the-end-of-a-very-long-road/

Georg taping for Commusication im Berlin, Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival

The Go Set interview with Justin Keenan for Artsound FM and Overheard Productions

April 19, 2012September 22, 2014 Overheard Productions Interviews, Music general Canberra, folk punk, Merry Muse, The Go Set, Victoria

The Go Set interview with Justin Keenan

for Artsound FM and Overheard Productions

Oh lordy, lordy, lordy.

Some days the universe gives you lemons, and you can either make lemonade or a whisky sour — then tip out the sour and chug down the whisky.

Tonight, necessity was the mother of invention, and later on tonight, I’ll post a picture that will explain why this otherwise lovely interview sounds like poor old Justin is at the end of a very long string, talking into a rather large tin can.

Resonance we don’t got; noise modulation we do; and a modicum of normalisation and balancing. But you can’t overdo these things.

Who cares? The Go Set are coming to Canberra on Friday 20 April:

The Merry Muse (Turner Bowlo, Canberra Southern Cross Club)
54 McCaughey Street
Turner ACT
Doors 7.15pm

Support: Chloe Hall and Silas Palmer
$17 full/$14 concessions/$12 Monaro Folk Society members
16yo and less are free if accompanied

And here be the interview:

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The Go Set interview with Justin Keenan for Artsound FM and Overheard Productions

And if you listen to the interview here, or you heard it on Friday morning on Artsound FM, you may have detected two things:

1. Some pretty average sound quality, and

2. A camera click.

Due to some technical challenges and the fact that I really had to get the interview done there and then, I took the shortest distance between two points: a straight line.

Neccesity is the mother of invention -- recording the interview with Justin in Studio Two at Artsound FM with a bog standard speaker phone and my iRiver — Neccesity is the mother of invention — recording the interview with Justin in Studio Two at Artsound FM with a bog standard speaker phone and my iRiver

Guerilla interview: Pete Akhurst (Canberra)

April 18, 2012September 22, 2014 Overheard Productions Interviews, Music general folk, folk music, Pete Akhurst, singer-songwriter

Pete Akhurst

Guerilla interview:

Pete Akhurst (Canberra)

Waiting in a cold studio in Canberra, unable to make contact with my planned interviewee, feeling pretty low and de-energised, but still noodling on Facebook (mostly trying to find contact details for aforementioned interviewee), a concept was born: guerilla interviews.

In front of me were 450+ Facebook ‘friends’. Most of these are musicians or in some way related to the industry.

Surely someone out there must have something to plug and be yearning for some exposure.

I put the call out to two, and one put their hand up.

Pete Akhurst of Canberra.

He’s on at The Front on Thursday 18 April 2012 with Marshall Okell.

Click here and enjoy. Note: all the usual cutting, pasting and snipping and trimming and balancing and equalising are not to be had. This is interviewing in the raw:

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http://soundcloud.com/overheard-productions/pete-akhurst

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Let me know what you think.

More importantly, get in to Pete’s music and let him know what you think.

See you at The Front tomorrow night.

Bill Quinn
Overheard Productions

The Go Set plus Chloe Hall and Silas Palmer, The Merry Muse (Canberra), Friday 20 April

April 16, 2012January 14, 2013 Overheard Productions Music general Canberra, Chloe and Silas, Chloe Hall, folk, folk music, Merry Muse, Silas Palmer, The Go Set

Canberra, it’s your chance to see the unusual pairing of The Go Set headlining with Chloe Hall and Silas Palmer as support.

Hear the ‘Tax Office Love Song’ love and other tales of love, stuff, and love and then we’ll kick the chairs to one side and The Go Set will turn the dance floor into sawdust. For more details: