Songs

New Songs from the Album - Overnighter

Lights of Hay
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
Advice for those who seek to make it in the music business.

Some Classics from the Back Catalogue

Cleverman
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
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
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.