The Sound of Falling Stars
First performed in 2017.
The hits and heartaches of music’s lost heroes.
Revel in their songs and marvel at the drama of their dark stories, as Cameron Goodall (The Lion King, Sydney Theatre Company) inhabits the souls of great stars who gave us so much, and died so young. From Hank Williams, through Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke, and Bobby Darin to Tim and Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, Bon Scott, Kurt Cobain and more, this is a night of musical joy and monumental loss.
Co-commissioned by Auckland Live and Adelaide Cabaret Festival.
Written and Directed Robyn Archer. Starring Cameron Goodall. Accordion George Butrumlis. Keyboards Enio Pozzebon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i08AoyExneU
Buried Country
Published: 2017
About: Buried Country is a documentary film, book, soundtrack album, and stage show. A prosopography,created by Clinton Walker, it tells the story of Australian country music in the Aboriginal community by focussing on the genre’s most important stars.
The book Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music by Clinton Walker was published by Pluto Press in 2000; the Film Australia documentary was directed by Andy Nehl and written by Walker. The 2000 2-CD set Buried Country: Original Film Soundtrack (Larrikin Records) produced by Walker contains 45 classic and rare tracks featured in the book and film. Buried Country has also been produced as a touring stage show that made its premiere at the Playhouse in Newcastle in August, 2016, starring surviving elders of the tradition and a younger generation of singers and songwriters.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/OHHtHMedJ1k
Perfect Tripod
Perfect Tripod’s Australian Songs is a breathtaking harmony-pop experience from four of the most gloriously warm and seasoned voices that ever entwined across this wide brown land. Take the alternately rib-tickling and tear-jerking
giants of Melbourne’s live musical/ comedy scene, add the peerless vocal and arranging skills of one-man showbiz powerhouse Eddie Perfect, turn them loose on the Great Australian Songbook, and let those neck hairs run free.
Perfect Tripod found its genesis in the smoke and feathers of Melbourne’s Famous Spiegeltent, where Eddie and Tripod first performed Paul Kelly’s a Capella psalm Meet Me In the Middle of the Air to a rapt cabaret audience. It was described by Kelly himself as “stunning”.
In 2013, the new band of brothers expanded the idea into a touring show, Australian Songs, spanning the breadth of our best-loved music from Aussie Crawl to Clare Bowditch, leading to ecstatic reviews and standing ovations.
