SMUG

SMUG by Andrew Garton & The Smitten Bridge from the album ALONE IN SPACE on andrewgarton.bandcamp.com.

Performed by Andrew Garton (guitar, vocals), Chip Wardale (bass), Simone White (drums), David Nerlich (backing vocals) featuring Mike Rudd (harmonica).

Produced by Andrew Garton

SO AND SO

Australian post-punk fusion trio Rat Kangaroo releases their fourth music video SO AND SO.

Rat Kangaroo is Mark Tallon (vocal), Chip Wardale (bass, electronic percussion), Andrew Garton (guitar, keyboards).

Recorded and filmed at Chip’s Place, Coburg. Post-production at Andrew’s Place, Hurstbridge.

For all things Rat Kangaroo – https://ratkangaroo.com

Rat Kangaroo – WEIGHT OF THE HEAD

WEIGHT OF THE HEAD

A music video created for Rat Kangaroo.

Filmed by punters with mobiles and videotape at Red Betty, a bar just off Melbourne’s Sydney Road in fabulous Brunswick.

Weight of the Head is available on Rat Kangaroo’s EP01 https://ratkangaroo.bandcamp.com.

AFGHANISTAN by BROWN AND BULPIN

Charles Brown and Randy Bulpin’s ‘Afghanistan’ is a song drawing attention to the high suicide rates in Australia’s servicemen and women.

Charles Brown – Acoustic guitar and Vocals

Randy Bulpin – Electric guitar, percussion and programming

Recorded at Phoenix Studios, Hurstbridge, Australia and Rio Campos Studio, Vermont, USA

Music video produced by Andrew Garton

Special thanks Michael Wilkins, David Nerlich, Nillumbik Council

Forged from Fire tells the story of how an Australian and international community of blacksmiths, welders, artists and volunteers responded to the devastating Black Saturday bush-fires by creating perhaps the most ambitious public artwork and memorial in Australia – a three tonne, 9.8 meter tall stainless steel and copper gum tree – The Blacksmiths’ Tree.

WATCH Forged from Fire

Background

On Black Saturday, 7 February 2009, townships north-east of Melbourne were threatened by firestorms. Considered Australia’s worst ever natural disaster it resulted in the highest loss of life and injuries from a bushfire in Australia. The conditions in which the fires were ignited and burnt were extreme. After the horror of immediate losses, people had naturally embarked on various journeys of repair and recovery. The Blacksmiths’ Tree was one of them.