I was born in Muswellbrook, a New South Wales coal-mining and cow milking town northwest of Sydney. At the age of two I moved with my parents to Canberra, the nascent capital of Australia, Walter Burley-Griffin's folly: nice to look at, absolutely soulless, and deadly boring! My first memories of a looming music obsession: having Petula Clark's "Downtown" going round and round in my head for what seemed like months, and intensive interest in my parents' "Floyd Cramer Plays the Monkees" album. My first faltering steps toward actively making music: learning to play the ukulele with Father Frank Anderson in 6th class, culminating in a legendary performance of "Bottle of Wine" at the Dickson Senior Citizens Home Christmas party. Father Frank then showed us what the D, A and G chords on the guitar looked like (and for that a big, belated thanks to Father Frank!), and from then on there was no holding me back! Around the same time, my life was irrevocably altered on hearing a friend's older sister's copy of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits - there followed many years spent in my bedroom, trying to reproduce the sounds on Dylan and Neil Young, and later Ry Cooder, records, and my first tentative attempts at song-writing (most of which landed in the waste-paper basket..). In my late teens and early twenties, in Canberra and later Sydney, numerous band experiences, most of which were scuppered by clashing rock star egos, musical incompetence or a combination of both. Then many years of playing only for myself and a few friends. After moving to Vienna in 1993 (it was lurve!) I began again to take to the stages (well, "stage" is actually something of an exaggeration...) of various Vienna pubs ("Australian singer-songwriter" sounds exotic here...). After acquiring my home studio (ie getting a Mac with Garageband on it) in 2005, my living-room recording career began... I hope you like what you hear...
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A little home-made video, made on my MacBook using Photobooth and iMovie...
The Sky and the Dirt
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Directed by Martin Hiscox.
6am Panic-Attack Blues
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A live version of my song filmed deep down in the basement by Martin Hiscox. (Featuring real blood and an unscripted car chase...)
All photography by Regina Hiscox
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