Songs

New Songs from the Album - Overnighter

Lights of Hay - Play MP3
I was doing an overnighter, headed for a music festival at Nymagee. I was out the back of Moulamein, it was late and I’d had a shitty day. I could see a glow over the horizon- the lights of the town of Hay. But they didn’t seem to be getting any closer. I wondered if I was getting anywhere at all… If any of us were…if the world even, was doomed.

Get Back to the Country - Play MP3
Advice for those who seek to make it in the music business.

Some Classics from the Back Catalogue

Cleverman - Play MP3
I was told by local aboriginals in Central Australia to "write a song" about the bush people that came in from the desert in 1984- but the man who walked back out interested me more. I got the riff at Kintore in 1987 when I was working out there for a stint between gigs. There was boomerang percussion coming across the flat from some ceremonies that were taking place. I played the guitar to that rhythm round my campfire.

Good Light In Broome - Play MP3
I was kicking back in Broome one afternoon with a friend and a couple of beers. We were letting the sun climb down over the sea. After a while my friend said lazily, "you know, there's good light in Broome" I saw immediately that it was true and my mind went off concocting all the trials and tribulations that can get in the way.

My Island Home - Play MP3
I had been living in the desert for six years and I was missing the fresh water country of my youth in Western Victoria. I'd finished a tour and spent a week camping on a remote part of Elcho Island living like kings off the land and sea. Cut to: A week later I was on a bus bound for Sydney. At 3am on a mid winter's night I was suffering an exceptional longing to be back in a boat on a tropical ocean. The chorus popped into my head. I wrote the verses at the time so George Rrurrmbu ( lead singer of the Warumpi Band) would sing it.