Micheal Leach joins the dots between Elvis, Florence + The Machine, and the Graceland exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery (which concluded on 17 July 2022).
Our next show is Saturday 3 September at the Port Fairy Literary Weekend.
There were only so many times you could listen to Hurricane, Just Like a Woman, Lay Lady Lay and lots of other songs before the tape ended, was turned over and you get it all again. This went on for about three days.
I started flipping through as many other news sites as I could possibly think of: BBC, CNN, New York Times, Yahoo, NBC, The Independent. As I read, it quickly became clear that the events were fuzzy and not clear cut at all.
I had been making instruments from reclaimed objects for a few years by then and came up with the mad idea of getting a band together to play them. I had to make a few more instruments often with bits sourced from op shops and garage sales.
Here's our promo clip for our show at the Mildura Writers Festival on Friday 15 July, 2022.
Michael Leach pens a limerick about a Superjesus guitar pick.
We're delighted and excited to be hitting the highway and taking our show to a new audience.
Tomorrow evening we are the opening night event of the 2022 Williamstown Literary Festival.
Down came all the posters in my bedroom. Out went my CD collection. All traces of my previous life gone in one fell swoop.