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The Byron Shire Echo Volume 38 #42 Wednesday, March 27, 2024

www.echo.net.au Cover art by Chayne Hultgren aka The Space Cowboy – see page 4

IN THIS ISSUE:

ACCEPTING SWEET BLESSINGS FROM MAGICAL BUNNIES SINCE 1986

NAB Mullumbimby branch to close ▶ p2 Deb Cox recognised by screen peers ▶ p5 Dr Moynihan’s national health check ▶ p8 Creativity abounds at Byron’s A&I ▶ p16 Seven: gigs, shows, entertainment ▶ p38 Bluesfest liftout ▶ centre pages 16

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contributed to where and having artists that have but particularly on the music finds itself today – seemed to me to blues side of things, has always itself. be one of the features of Bluesfest a little bit about You said that the new album’s is your approach where you are at now. What and writing performing for or your motivation from when you now? Has it changed a lot a for doing is he reasons because not different began? Are there Garrett is a classic and he is absolutely music for you now? septuagenarian – it’s because psyche. musical our in There’s not a unique, and he’s embedded That’s a really good question. It on the tail end of his answer for it. Music is so mysterious. straight-up The Echo spoke to Garrett, for Easter in Tyagarah, comes and goes on the wind. current tour and his prep as a ‘halfway day. in a band in Sydney on what he described I spent such a lot of time know, You Rob (Hurst) and It’s cloudy but not raining.’ that had very strong songwriters, music you’re bringing never a shortage of Jim (Moginie) – there was Can you tell me about the plenty of stuff to chew to Bluesfest this year? material. We always had I was very involved in political True North, on. The work record, and new on a So I’ve just finished and then, of course, We recorded in activism, the environment, which will be out by Bluesfest. [don’t worry, I had to look from the Oils and ultimately, in that interregnum Sydney – with Martin Rotsey Alter Egos (including Martin early 2000s, in formal politics. Jezabels, and a group And maybe apart from The Heather Shannon from the Lane), it up too!] in the Evan Mannell and Rowan in town. It was organic, I’ve not particularly spent Rotsey, Heather Shannon, of other musicians who were As much as I can tell, because or two. exactly what I think, and I think that I’ve just created we might have another one open and really just reflecting that a lot of time navel-gazing, off the time. We’ll play a fair bit of with the charge of coming for the album cover and all where I am at this point in enough space around me, just Grace also did the design guests with a bit of luck, Oils, to find the songs were She’s a designer, so that was I’m hoping, with some special two very big tours with The artwork this time around. material. older and you’ve got to grab the of ‘place’, as well. alongside some starting to spring out of the nice. Bit of family synergy them with them. It’s a very organic out of the ether and give about Bluesfest that you them when they do and go I’ll pluck a few Oil’s songs Is there anything in particular that you really should overthink make it the biggest, bestest, thing. It’s not something festivals? a run probably and we’ll just go with find different from other we can. you just have to sort of almost most full-on wonderful night in the adherence to the in my experience, lies Bluesfest of but I think the strength the muse, as it were. necessarily set in concrete, really. It’s It sounds like things aren’t backstory of popular music 3 many people will be on stage? traditions and the plenty of that continued on liftout page there’s although do you have an idea of how moment, not just about the will be how we got to the moment, daughters Grace and May It depends a little bit. My that goes on, it’s also about be fantastic. I really love that. on stage singing which will

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