Looking Forward

I am getting excited and caffeinated this morning.. listening to the album so far.
It's really coming along. It's beginning to walk and talk and sing all by itself.
I watched the ARIA awards last night, having been many times it was quite nice to experience the TV version from the comfort of my lounge room.
It's an exciting time for local pop music.
New Pop as I call it, heralded by Gotye, Kimbra and the like, is such a refreshing take on commercially viable popular music.
Smart but heartfelt, not auto-tuned to death, catchy but not mind numbingly repetitious, not the lowest-com-denom courting faff we unfortunately begin to expect of chart toppers.
Stuff with attitude and gravity. Stuff with personality and risk.

I'm thinking it's a good time to rejoin the fold of Australian pop music.
Thanks guys.

And congratulations!

Graveyard Train boys join us in the studio

Apologies for the gap between posts, here's two clips to compensate..
Graveyard Train have been absolutely killing it of late (haha, horror pun) which is marvelous to see.
The boys have been gigging solidly for a few years now and have come a long way (from playing in my backyard for my birthday party to Golden Plains..!) they just keep getting better, and bigger.
They're friends of mine, and I've moonlighted as one of their 'Graveyard Girls' providing banshee screams and ghostly, ghoulish backing vocals on some of their tracks.. So much fun.
I love being directed to sing it 'more possessed'...
And as I am now in the studio, making my first solo record, it was time to call in the boys to return the favour. Representing are Josh, Matt and Adam (who arrived with two kinds of hammers, hard and harder, and a selection of different gauge chain) So professional. Australia's premier (and only?) chain player.
Long live the 'Train. Enjoy.
Oh, and watch for Josh's "mono-d'oh!" moment.