A NEW SHOW

The first time I saw Kate sing the roof lifted off the venue and blue sparks floated in the air. She is a virtuoso with heart. I have been her long-term collaborator for many years as a producer, arranger, songwriter, and the guitarist in her live show.

Kate Miller-Heidke Official Site

Steve Pope (amazing drummer) and Scotty Saunders (amazing bass player) and me formed this proggy three piece. We toured Australia and the UK, released 2 Eps and an Album, and had one song breakthrough on Triple J, Sunday Driver. This year we played a reunion show and we have been working on some new material to be recorded this year.

Franky Walnut is my musical comedy alter-ego. It started when I had extreme writer’s block (which I don’t believe in). I wrote and recorded an album, and subsequently performed as Franky, appearing at the Tamworth Country Music Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival, Queensland Cabaret Festival, and toured the country, playing pubs and stand up venues. Franky’s debut album was nominated for an ARIA Award for Best Comedy Release.

I think every songwriter dreams of writing a musical one day, and I know how lucky I was to get a shot at it, let alone for it to be this one.

Muriel’s Wedding was one of those films that was a seminal part of growing up in Australia during the 90s and it is chock full of catch phrases that have stuck.

Most recently I collaborated with polymath wizard Ben McCarthy on FGAS second album, Xenoglossy. It features guest singers Ben Salter, Melody Pool, and Hugh Sheridan, as well as Kate Miller-heidke and others.

From Kate Miller-Heidke Wikipedia page:

“On 24 June 2011 Miller-Heidke's side project, Fatty Gets a Stylist, released a self-titled album.[5] She had formed the project as a short-term, alternative pop duo with Nuttall.[5][40][41] The album was written and recorded on a lap top over several months, with Nuttall producing, in different locations in Australia, South East Asia and West London. It reached No. 90 on the ARIA Albums Chart.[25] Its second single, "Are You Ready?" (June), was used in a New York Lottery ad on US TV[42] and in promo for the Seven Network's shows, in which actors from various shows mime to the words while walking, ending with Alf Stewart from Home and Away yelling the final line, "Let's go!". Fatty Gets a Stylist, was credited to Miller-Heidke as her third solo album, Liberty Bell, outside Australia.”

Kate and I wrote the music for the Melbourne Theatre Company production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. We are writing the music for MTC’s As You Like It, which opens September 2021.