Richard Lawson Music

As you might have guessed I’m Festival Organiser for the Gulgong Folk Festival 2012.

I have been  working on this for over 9 months now since arriving back in Mudgee/Gulgong ….

The amount of work that has gone into it is untold and I could never really make any of you grasp the enormity of the undertaking…I am basically doing it all myself…  …I’m not complaining as I knew full well before embarking on this endeavour that that was the case.

What I really wanted to achieve was an outstanding music festival that I could curate and put on the best up and coming bands that I knew of…it harks back to the days of my management when I managed and promoted amongst others The Scientists/Beasts of Bourbon/Grooveyard/Sekret Sekret/The Introverts/Lime Spiders/The Most….

The next week or so are going to be frenetic and I wont have time to blink…but I will definitely enjoy myself and hope that there will be more…

Normally found behind his keyboards in recent years, Richard Lawson branches out on this CD to become a multi-instrumentalist and singer. The music is something else altogether. Opening track Paradise has a 1980s Human League sound, while elsewhere there’s spoken word and some Beach Boy and Beatles influences, all spun through a synthesizer and given a funky beat.

FRANCES RAND Nov 9 2011 Entertainment Now

Last day for tracking on the “In your face” album today at Pirate Studios…the home of rock.  Its been lots of weird shit this session…cleaning up, adding very very random psychedelic bits like orchestras/bombs/siren/cuckoo clocks  and dotty airport announcements with pitch shifting. Some later songs have very extreme chord changes and thematic changes…all in all a pretty spun out album…mixing in January

http://collageartsmusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/0410-richard-lawson.html

Here is the 2nd live gig Ive ever done in my new electronic guise…purple robes/ big beats …finally going musically what Ive always wanted and its so liberating…I feel like a great weight has finally been lifted from my shoulders and I can breathe now….NO MORE TURNING BACK FROM HERE…no more folk/no more covers…this is the real me!!!

Doing 2 shows in Melbourne next week to launch ‘Bread and Water’…Grand Final Weekend for gods sake!!!

First show is at Pure Pop Records in Barkly St St Kilda Sun Oct 2…I went here with Scott from the Collage nights at the Espy and it was a great vibe…record store out front specialising in Guitar Pop and out back a stage/coffee machine/Bar and Pizzas flown in from next door…Burn in Hell were playing and I said to my self I want to play here…I contacted Dave who runs the show…told him of the upcoming album and he was keen…soooo…Ive got Jon Schofield from Paul Kellys Coloured Girls and me old band mate from the Grooveyard whom Ive been hanging with and rehearsing and doing a bit of writing at his country retreat in Binalong near Yass/Canberra…also grabbed me old drumming mate from FTR Euro Electronic days ,Gye Bennetts, who played drums with Hitmen/Tablewaiters and really gives the tubs a thump and loves good electronic music…so thats the line up there

Next I got the Tues Collage night [Oct 4]at the Espy from Scott and put a bill together for him and have just scored Penny Ikinger Solo for the show which includes Jon Schofield in his first ever solo shows plus Nigel Wearne who is a new up and comiing alt country guy from Melbourne…louis and the Pride finish off the bill…THAT is an awesome night and bill

Both shows free   Pure Pop kicks off at 6pm and Espy kicks off round 8pm…Ill be onstage there about 10.30pm

Yes weve been added to 22 College Radio playlists in USA…doesnt guarantee airplay but it does get you past the radio programmer

One in particular looks very groovy…Cosmic Voyage coming out of http://www.kspc.org/ in California

Also on …   RadioActivity.fm

Plenty more still to do….over 300 stations in America and havent even started on Europe yet….or Australia for that matter

Try this link for 5 songs…..

http://livestre.am/VLNm