On December 12 I will be presenting a new work with my band Collider, a band I co-lead with Adam Simmons.  Adam is also presenting a new work on the night. The evening is an exciting one for us. As well as giving us the opportunity to present new material we have both decided to conceptually link our compositions to literature.

I have composed my work with the brilliant Cormac McCarthy in mind, whose writing creates an atmosphere of sparseness, detachment and tension and is always touched with wry humour. He presents to us both the absolute beauty and ugly truth of existence.  These are some of the themes I have kept in mind when writing the work. I also find an intense spirituality in McCarthy’s work that seems to links into a deep religious structure overlaying much of America’s history. This is a structure that I myself have some personal understanding of, being raised as the child of missionary parents.

Adam’s work is focussing on Dr Seuss. Adam has embedded Seuss’s prosody in the compositions for this concert.

The details are

Monday December 12

Doors open at 7 for a 7.30 start

Fortyfivedownstairs

45 Flinders Lane Melbourne City

presales available : 96629966

www.fortyfivedownstairs.com

On another musical matter I will be performing as part of CW Stoneking’s Primitive Horn Orchestra on Friday the 2^nd at the Corner Hotel and Saturday the 3^rd at Homebake Festival, Sydney.