Sure enough same guy, played at a pub down the road from us last year or so.
Very musically talented guy. It's so strange being a younger Australian and realising that we don't have to import fame/stardom from America. We got talent right here.
> we got talent right here
You have no idea how right you are. Or maybe you do… There are writers and musicians and … every kind of talent on par with anything anyone else in any country has ever done.
It was extremely eye opening for me to listen to TripleJ or whatever station I would tune to after hearing some American pop junk, and hear music I’ve never heard, before or since, by bands I never heard before or since, play some of the best music I have ever heard, every single day I was there. And, that music was unlike a lot of other stuff on the radio, which was so refreshing. So new! So good! And so much!
My girlfriend (who was Australian and is why I moved there) pulled out her CDs and I was lost in them for weeks.
I was roommates with a guy, and worked with him, for six months before he texted me and told me to turn on the radio. Three minutes later I heard his voice followed by 45 minutes of the best DJ mixing set I have ever heard. He composed the best music I have ever heard, live, by ear, and it was something he did every damn week.
Australia is fucking amazing.
But tbh Triple J’s Like a Version blows it out of the water
Especially giving artists the leeway to try genre switching
Like Denzel Curry covering Rage Against the Machine for instance
King Stingray does Coldplays's 'Yellow' https://youtu.be/sr3iI8gg2fo
Denzel Curry does Rage against the Machine's 'Bulls on Parade' https://youtu.be/ZY4ywyFXdik
- Someday (Julia Jacklin cover of The Strokes)
- Love (CHVRCHES cover of Kendrick Lamar)
- Feels Like We Only Go Backwards (Arctic Monkeys cover of Tame Impala)
- Do I Wanna Know (CHVRCHES cover of Arctic Monkeys)
- Believe (DMA's cover of Cher)
And speaking of Australian childrens TV and Like A Version covers, the Wiggles covered Tame Impala's Elephant (bet you didn't expect that one!)
Australian covers go back further in time, of course ...
The Wiggles famously covered AC/DC's It's a Long Way to the Shop (If You Wanna Sausage Roll)
and Rolf Harris infamously covered I Touch Myself originally by the Divinyls
These, and more, prompted by guest appearence's on Andrew Denton's Musical Challenge and collected on a couple of records (today on youtube etc.).
Indeed you do. A random stab at TripleJ Unearthed is enough to find an artist/band that's well above the world average.
I don't know if it's the remoteness or dangerous animals that is the reason for this, but Australians sure know how to make music.