THE INTERPRETERS
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Mark Giblin Mark Giblin is a Sydney based musician and animator. He left the UK many years ago, and spent far longer than could be considered sensible travelling the World, usually with a guitar. The banjo was taken up as an accompaniment for his cartoon music about 5 years ago, much to the horror of his neighbours at the time in Bondi. Mark is now 46 and does 1 healthy days work a week with Stu. All is well. |
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Tinkerbellslutbaby Tinkerbellslutbaby are an erstwhile collaboration who have released one album - Something That Holds You For Good. Rachel Holmshaw has spent much of the last decade living in Europe. She currently records & performs as Dorothy of the Day. Dean Manning is a multi APRA winning and ARIA nominated songwriter. He founded Leonardo's Bride with Abby Dobson and Holidays On Ice with Angie Hart. Jon Howell, also a Leonardo's Bride luminary, currently performs with blues/roots outfit, Chase The Sun. |
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Gyan There is something powerful yet waif-like about singer-songwriter Gyan. As if she were the Bronte sister given healthy lungs, her songs are infused with a melancholy passion. First known for her 1990 Aria hit single 'Wait' (still the ultimate anthem for the lonely girl!). Living between London and Miami Fl. Gyan signed to Universal wrote and recorded for herself and others (Ricky Martin, Leanne Rimes) A woman with many strings to her bow, Gyan scooped the Sydney theatre award in 2007 for her beautiful 'Billy the Rabbit' collaboration with Michael Leunig. She has also written an award winning children's book and is about to launch her next chapter with a self penned album called; s u p e r f r a g i l i s t i c a l l y |
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Andy White Andy White is a musician, singer and writer born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, living at present in Melbourne. He has released ten albums, two books, and is a fully paid-up world traveler, touring the globe with his acoustic guitar. His new album is 'Songwriter' and book '21st Century Troubadour'. |
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Abby Dobson When ABBY DOBSON left school, she sang for her supper in New York subways, Greek islands and Parisian tequila slammer bars. When she returned to Australia, she co-founded the group Leonardo's Bride. They had many accolades and their song 'Even When Im Sleeping' won APRA song of the year and also was voted as 'Top 20 Australian Songs of All Time'. She then went on to make gold selling albums and tour with dance producer Paul Mac. She has been invited to sing with Neil Finn, Daniel Johns, Alex Lloyd and esteemed others, was commissioned to record her songs for the hit TV series, 'The Secret Life of Us' and recently released her highly acclaimed solo album, 'Rise Up'. She was raised in Sydney, but now lives happily in Melbourne. |
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Bernie Hayes: singer songwriter Bernie Hayes has been playing, singing, writing and recording for thirty-odd years now. Singer songwriter and producer of his last album, Homebody, Brendan Gallagher (Karma County), probably describes Bernie best. "Bernie Hayes is a diamond in the music business, gold and silver too," he says. "His songwriting alone guarantees him a seat at the table of great popular music writers; his incredible voice into the bargain elevates him to the status of national treasure. His is a majestic touch informed by raw talent and the dear school of experience. In a word he is an artist... long may he reign." |
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Roger Loves Betty: singer songwriters Once upon a time there was a boy called Roger (also known as Tim Oxley) and a girl called Betty (also known as Jodi Phillis). Roger came from a very interesting and talented musical family, (think Sunnyboys, think Melanie Oxley) Betty came from the Clouds, (think 90's alternative pop). They met long ago and fell in love after many years of friendship. They got married and moved to the Escarpment. People came from far and wide to listen to their music and watch them play. In time they wrote, recorded, mixed and produced songs in their kitchen, which is now known as The Kitchen Recording House. It is where Jodi and Tim recorded their last 5 solo albums. It is also where they recorded their masterpiece, Let Love Begin, Roger Loves Betty's debut album. Jodi and Tim's music reveals a world filtered through the eyes of two slightly off-beat and at times, melancholic characters, striving for peace and happiness. The affect is arresting, joyous and sparkling. |
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Dr Helen Durham: International Humanitarian Lawyer with Red Cross and Senior Research Fellow Melbourne Law School. | |
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Greg Arnold: singer songwriter Greg Arnold is the ARIA and was APRA award winning singer-songwriter behind the Australian folk-rock institution Things of Stone and Wood. With Things of Stone and Wood's first two albums The Yearning and Junk Theatre were top ten hits that included some of Greg's most well known songs: the summery smash hit of '93 Happy Birthday Helen, Rock this Boat, Share this Wine and Wildflowers. He has also produced many albums, with recent Carus and Skipping Girl Vinegar recordings enjoying extensive radio play and critical acclaim. Arnold's latest full studio solo album, Lost Marie, is a collection of story songs. A cast of the lost, the lonesome, ex-cons and cons to be are wrapped in a blanket of warm melodic acoustica featuring a banjo, a saw, a piano and brass. |
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Bek-Jean Stewart- singer songwriter Bek-Jean's musical journey dates back to 1993 when ex-Catherine Wheel member Grant Shanahan placed an advertisement looking for a lead guitarist for a new project he had been working on, but when he heard Bek-Jean Stewart sing for the first time he knew he had discovered something special and immediately scrapped the project he had been working on and joined forces with her to form Eva Trout. 3 extraordinary albums later, Bek-Jean knew she needed another outlet for her creative energy and in 2003 she joined her friend Perry Keyes in another rock and roll band as drummer. The weight lifted, giving her the energy to write again for her solo record, Junior Years (Laughing Outlaw) B.J. - "Junior Years is songs written when I was Jesus' age, and I think anyone who lives to and beyond Jesus' age deserves a gold star and a smiley stamp on their hand." |
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Mark Seymour- singer songwriter Mark Seymour is best known for his work as singer and songwriter of legendary Australian rock band Hunters & Collectors. He has also released a number of superb albums during his solo career. In 1981, he formed the band Hunters & Collectors in Melbourne, playing guitar and handling vocals. In 1997, whilst still officially part of Hunters & Collectors he released his debut solo album King Without a Clue, which earned him a nomination in the ARIA Awards for Best Male Artist (as well as Best Debut Single with Last Ditch Cabaret). In 1998, Hunters & Collectors officially split up. Seymour later released a live DVD/CD in 2001 entitled One Eyed Man, Embedded in 2004, and 2005's Daytime & the Dark. His fourth solo studio album, titled Westgate was released in June, 2007. Seymour continues to tour, focusing on mostly small acoustic performances. |
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Luke Davies - Writer Luke Davies is an internationally celebrated writer, the author of three novels (most recently God of Speed), four volumes of poetry and a co-writer, with Neil Armfield, of the feature film Candy. Davies' most recent poetry collection, Totem, won the 2005 South Australian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry, the Grace Leven Poetry Prize 2004, the Age's Poetry Book of the Year Award and the overall Age Book of the Year Award, an unusual feat for a book of poetry. In 2004 Davies was also awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Poetry. Davies' other novels are the cult best-seller Candy, Isabelle the Navigator and the just-released God of Speed. Candy was short listed for the 1998 NSW Premier's Awards and has been published in France, Spain, Germany, Israel, Greece, the UK and USA. |
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Peter O'Doherty - singer, songwriter, artist Emigrating with his family from New Zealand in the late 1960's, Peter O'Doherty is a musician and painter. For two decades he was prominent musically as bass player and contributing song writer with Sydney band Mental As Anything. In the early 1990's he and his brother Reg Mombassa released their first album together under the moniker Dog Trumpet. Nowadays they tour spasmodically but with great enthusiasm. They released their fourth album 'Antisocial Tendencies' in 2007 and are currently working on a fifth album. Exhibiting regularly as a painter over the past 18 years in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane and internationally in England and New Zealand, O'Doherty has been hung in the Sulman Prize exhibition and many of his portraits have been selected for Sydney's annual Salon Des Refuses exhibition. He has won the Paddington Art Prize for landscape, the Commendation Award at the Mosman Art Prize and the Alan Gamble Memorial Art Prize. Peter is represented in Sydney by King Street Gallery on William. He is married to the abstract painter Susan O'Doherty. They have two children, two cats with bells on their collars and live in Sydney. |
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Tim Hall - singer, songwriter, sculptor Tim Hall is a musician and steel sculptor from Umina Beach (Central Coast NSW). To his credit he has survived 18 years in Australia's music industry playing with such acts as The Whitlams, The Strange and Chakradiva. In recent years he has produced albums for Jeff Lang and Jordie Lane and his voice has featured on numerous TV ads and themes. Stu Spence is his friend. |
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Charles Jenkins- singer, songwriter When Charles was asked if he could supply a bio for this program, this is what he supplied. Dear Stu...Bio? jesus...how about this... Charles Jenkins writes songs. Other guys dig ditches, climb mountains, rope cattle, send business to the wall...it's all the same. |
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David Field - Actor, director David Field is an actor with many stage and screen credits to his name; some of his films being Two Hands, Chopper, Getting' Square, The Oyster Farmer, Tom White, West, Silent Partner and at the end of this year he will make his directorial debut with the feature film, The Combination. Also, long ago he was a young apprentice chef in Noosa, Queensland. |
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John Birmingham - writer John Birmingham's first book, He Died with a Felafel in his Hand, was a bestseller and a film. Brisbane based, he has also written for newspapers and magazines. |
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Tim Freedman - singer, songwriter Tim Freedman is the lead singer and pianist of the Australian band The Whitlams. Prior to co-founding The Whitlams, Freedman was the front man of ska band Itchy Feet, and later the indie pop bands Penguins on Safari and The Olive Branch. Freedman once said he became a pianist "by mistake" after quitting law school. The song "No Aphrodisiac" was The Whitlams break-through hit (1997). He cited a highlight of his career so far: receiving the ARIA award for "Best Album" from the man after whom his band The Whitlams were named, former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. "We've become quite friendly since", he said. |
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