Kim Churchill — off to tour USA and Canada, 2013

March 10, 2013January 30, 2020 Overheard Productions Interviews, Music general Acoustic, australia, billy bragg, billy quinn, Canada, folk, Kim Churchill, Overheard Productions, roots, tour, USA

Kim Churchill has a few more shows to go in Australia before he heads off to USA to join the tour of one Stephen William Bragg (aka Billy Bragg).

At the Cobargo Folk Festival in February 2013, Kim Churchill was the recipient of my vicarious joy at this news, and we spontaneously had a chat, leaning on someone’s trailer, outside a venue, out in the open — which was a bit of a mistake because as I now know: don’t try to do these things in a flukey, swirling breeze.

I’m sure you’ll cope. Muggins here did the best he could with the sound balance. [Audio file will be removed by end February 2020.] Interview text:

Bill Quinn: I’m standing here with Kim Churchill. Hello, Kim.

Kim Churchill: Hello, Bill.

BQ: Kim, You’re about to go to America and tour with someone and I’m just a little bit excited about that. Tell me what you’re going to do in America.

KC: I’m going to do the opening slots for a guy named Billy Bragg.

BQ: OH MY GOD!

KC: Yes!

BQ: How the hell did you jag that one?

KC: Ah, bottle of scotch.

BQ: Elaborate!

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2012: An Overheard Productions year in review

December 15, 2012April 5, 2017 Overheard Productions Miscellaneous 2013, Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Acca Daiquiris, Amanda Kay, Ann Vriend, ANU School of Music, Arch Bishop, Artsound FM, Ben Wells and the Middle Names, Bill Quinn, billy bragg, Bruce Watson, Canberra, Cilla Jane, Corinbank Festival, Folk in the Foothills, Fred Smith, Gareth Hugh Evans, George Mann, Gregory Page, Harry Manx, Hayley Shone, Illawarra Folk Festival, Jenny Spear, John Broomhall, Kim Churchill, Liz Frencham, Los Chavos, Mark Wilkinson, Merry Muse, Mikelangelo and the Tin Star, National Folk Festival, Overheard Productions, Pat Drummond, Paul Greene, Pete Akhurst, Pieta Brown, radio, Salvation Jane, Second Sun, self-indulgent wank, Speaking in Tongues, The Bearded Gypsy Band, The BordererS, The Go Set, The Good Intentions, timber and steel, trad and now

2012 in review

[Insert audible groan of indecision mixed with ‘Oh well, why the hell not’-ness.]

I realise that ‘Year in Review’ blogs and lists can seem as passé as flash mobs and….. other things that are passé.

Like saying that things are ‘passé’.

But as per the opening sentence, ‘Why not?’.

As with many things that I’ve written since age 14, this may provide a mixture of utility for others (especially if I’m reduxing your interview or news event) and utility for me. It’s a natural progression from the Year in Review emails and Farcebook notes I’ve written in years gone by.

This 2012 version was prompted by that nonsensical Farcebook function that purports to consolidate your 20 biggest moments of 2012, using an algorithm that was obviously created by a very finite number of monkeys on a finite number of very old typewriters.

Radio

My glittering pseudo-career on community radio took an extended break in May when I hung up my boots from Artsound FM.

I love presenting radio programs. I’ve discovered so much good music, so many talented performers and met so many good people through it. But it’s nice to have a little more breathing room and leisure time.

I tend to throw myself in to things like this, boots and all, somtimes at the cost of sensible balance with other things, so I have enjoyed putting my energies into other areas.

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