Interview recorded in Geelong on Wednesday 28 August 2013.
Appearing at ANU Bar on Wednesday 4 September 2013 then onto Sydney, Gold Coast and Brisbane.
Details at http://www.thegoset.net and The Go Set on Stalkbook.
My favourite The Go Set song:
An old chorus fave done Real McKenzies stylee:
[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.
RadioMy 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.
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.
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:
If this doesn’t get your feet tapping, check for a pulse…
Overheard Productions 