JVG'S "STOPPING ALL STATIONS EXCEPT EAST RICHMOND"

A Special Carnival of Suburbia event featuring Mick Thomas, Greg Macainsh, Jane Clifton, Gary Adams, Dan Warner, Ian Bland , Monique Dimattina The Orbweavers, Mark Ferrie, Marcel Borrack , Bob Starkey and more....

Over 80% of Australians live in the suburbs. So why have so few songs been written by Australians about the places in which they live? It’s almost like suburban Australians are ashamed of their suburbanity. No longer. I’m not talking about true blue Aussie songs about kangaroos. I’m talking about the real Australia. Those songs are out there and they’re good. And we’ll be bringing them to you live. From the pioneering songs of Skyhooks about Balwyn, Carlton and Toorak to the new indie aesthetic of writing about immediate stuff, and all manner of suburban odes in between. Greg Macainsh and Bob Starkey will be helped out by Jane Clifton on some of those Skyhooks numbers. The Orbweavers be lending some brand spankin’ fresh perspective. They’ve got a sparkling, dreamy piece about Spotswood. There are performers who have made careers out of seeingthe beauty in ordinary Australian things, unashamedly singing about the Australia in which they live. Mick Thomas is one of the country’s most committed artists bent to that persuasion. He will bring his Roving Commission with him to sing about those places near and dear to him. His old pal Squeezebox Wally is a part of that unit. Dan Warner will be there. Gary Adams will do the timeless classic Alamein Train and more. Marcel Borrack, Monique diMattina, the JVG Guitar Method and the poetry of Ian Bland will take you to Burwood, up and down Punt Rd. and to Regent and Ruthven on the Epping line. The night will be show, a show that will proudly celebrate who we are -creatures of suburbia. Such a show has never been attempted before. There’s a lot more beauty in Spotswood than there is in Galveston. I’ve been to Galveston, it’s a shit hole. Jimmy Webb saw something in that town that I didn’t. All power to him! All power to those proudly performing songs about suburban Melbourne as a part of Stopping All Stations Except East Richmond at The Caravan Music Club on Saturday 19th March.