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DAN KELLY
GOLDFEELS
Australian Album Tour
with the full band
‘Regional Crisis’
starts next week
“The mighty Dan Kelly’s magical 5th album, GOLDFEELS is yet another gargantuan lesson in artful yet instantly appealing album making. Kelly covers new ground on this largely piano-based offering (with distant echoes of Randy Newman and John Cale), telling musical stories about sex, death, grief, and bushfires – what more could you ask for?” Peter Jesperson
Dan Kelly isn’t just a songwriter; he’s a world-builder. The multiple ARIA and AMP Award nominee’s albums arrive after years of refinement, craftwork and tinkering. The music goes far beyond anything obvious or straight ahead to encompass the nexus of Dan’s idiosyncratic perspective, unerring gift for character portraiture and impressionistic storytelling. Each record acts like an epic Australian novel, but the arresting effervescent imagination of his beautiful melodies, masterful guitarwork and the saturated texture of the production.
Dan’s breakthrough albums with his band The Alpha Males, Sing The Tabloid Blues (2004), and the J Award-nominated Drowning In The Fountain Of Youth (2006) painted a frenetic portrait of Melbourne’s share house life. Dan Kelly’s Dream (2010) presented a series of vignette travelogues of eccentrics and outsiders. Leisure Panic! (2015) made his focus geographical, a panorama of Northern New South Wales, introducing more folk and pastoral elements into his signature anime-inflected adventure rock.
A rumination on cycles of time, GOLDFEELS, takes us on a journey through the goldfields of Dja Dja Wurrung land in Central Victoria.
Birthed from a maelstrom of family grief and pandemic isolation, the album sounds as wide open as the landscapes that inspired it. Written by Dan alone at the piano, the album is sonically sparser than the infinite layer cake sound of previous records, with propulsive percussive energy locked into a heavy, steady groove. GOLDFEELS holds you in dawn and dusk, moments of reflection and speculation. Biblical imagery and apocalyptic raveups sit alongside lost love, the insidious pull of online radicalisation, environmental degradation and classic DK character odysseys like the epic Sea Shepherd Cook.
Produced and engineered by multi-instrumentalist Dan Luscombe (Courtney Barnett, The Drones, Amyl And The Sniffers), the album also features a crème de la crème, de la crème, crème de la crème of Australia’s most respected musicians: Tropical Fuck Storm’s Erica Dunn and Lauren Hammel, Jess Ribeiro, Amanda Roff (Harmony, Time For Dreams, Don Walker), Ben Woolley (Marlon Williams), award-winning saxophonist Julien Wilson, Gus Agars (Marlon Williams, Robyn Hitchcock), Peter Luscombe (Paul Kelly, The Black Sorrows) and Tom Lyncolgn (Harmony, Nation Blue).
While the album deals with darker and heavier themes than he has explored previously, it still brims with unexpected and invigorating moments of music on every track, pulling from influences from the most idiosyncratic sides of Sly Stone, Neil Young and John Lennon, flavours of classic indie rock.
Mostly, it still sounds like Dan Kelly music, just the next evolution forward for an artist who has always been driven to find new frontiers of imagination and exploration.
GOLDFEELS
Track listing: Intro
Goldfields Doctor
At The Bushfire Benefit
Golden Shoes
Back To The Garden
Lakes Of Menindee
Burn Up With The Trees
Sea Shepherd Cook
The Hero Is You
Regional Crisis
Escape From The Internet
Dan Kelly & Regional Crisis
GOLDFEELS
Australian Album TourWith Special Guests
Sun Sept 8 Bridge Hotel Castlemaine VIC
Tix on sale nowFri Nov 8 Petersham Bowlo Petersham NSW
With Special Guests David McCormack and The Polaroids
Tix on sale nowSat Nov 9 Howler Melbourne VIC
With Special Guests SPOD and Baby Blue
Tix on sale nowSat Nov 16 Franks Wild Years Thirroul VIC
*SOLO Afternoon show
Tix on sale nowSun Nov 17 Smiths Alternative Bookstore Canberra VIC
* SOLO Afternoon show
Tix on sale nowThurs Nov 21 Junkyard Maitland NSW
* SOLO Afternoon show
Tix on sale nowFri Dec 6 Grace Emily Adelaide SA
With Special Guests, The Maraby Band
Tix on sale nowFri Dec 13 It’s Still A Secret Brisbane QLD
With guests TBC
Tix on sale nowSat Dec 14 Eltham Hotel Eltham NSW
With Special Guests Headland
Tix on sale now
Follow DAN KELLY
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.AMNPLIFY – DB
My nickname is “The Amnplifier”. Why? Because around here my focus is on being a conduit for providing greater outcomes that people come here for. My day to day “work” is living in the moment, and I love helping others concentrate on finding their connection to themselves through their experiences.
Why start a music environment? The truth is I love music, I love writing, and I love life. I work with musicians every day, and I feel certain that I will be until they put me in the ground. I have been managing people in businesses of some sort for over thirty five years so along the way I have developed some “wisdom” from my regular and constant “observations”.
Amnplify your experience. That is what we want you to do here, and if you want to let me know why you do, or don’t, shoot me a message on Facebook.
Hope you enjoy yourself here and find something that hits you somewhere.
