QUILLAN VICKERS-NOBLE DEBUTS WITH 'WATERFALL'

Followers of the PBGB website will be well familiar with the songs of Al Noble. Al has been a regular contributor to the PBGB annals for over a year now. Thus far we have posted seven songs written and sung by Al. You can listen to them by clicking on Al's name under 'The Musos' tab at the top of your screen.

Anyway, last time Al dropped by The Shed he brought along his son Quillan. 

Just like his Dad, Quillan is a guitar playing songwriter, so we asked him if he would play one of his original songs for us. He picked up Al's guitar and launched into a song he calls 'Waterfall'. We thought it sounded great, so we turned on the recorder and in no time flat Quillan had laid down THIS .  Nice work Quillan !!

Quillan started studying guitar under the tutelage of Dave Crowden at age 11. After acquiring some basic guitar chops, Quillan focussed his studies on classical guitar and went on to pass the Australian Music Examination Board 5th Grade guitar exam. 

Dave was impressed enough to invite Quillan to become one of the founding members of Dave's highly regarded and much loved 'Guitarama' ensemble. Guitarama is a local treasure. Over the years Guitarama has provided many young musicians with fantastic opportunities to collaborate in writing, recording, and performing their often self penned pieces. Guitarama has nurtured some truly outstanding young musicians including Daniel Champagne and Matt Burrows.

Quillan contributed to Guitarama's first and second CDs before upping stumps to see a bit more of the world. 

Quillan has kept up his love of music, and is currently performing with 'QNA' , a trio he has formed with his friends Nicholas Ryan and Albert McKnight. They have performed at the Cobargo Folk Festival and are working to expand their repertoire.

We were delighted to meet Quillan, and hope to see him back in The Shed soon. 

Thanks for joining in the fun Quillan. Love your work !

STEVE FAGGOTTER PLEADS WITH POLITICIANS ON POLLING DAY EVE, WITH HIS PITCH - 'POLIDACTYL'

Steve has been a staunch Shedder since late 2015. He has added his trademark Telecaster licks to some twenty PBGB songs.

It's been a long time coming, but now, finally, we are very pleased to post the first song Steve has penned for us..... Polidactyl.

It's a tune that has morphed and transmogrified as Steve and the players knocked it into shape.

We all threw ideas into the pot........made suggestions as to the lyrics (written by Graham Brown), the tempo, the idea of including a rap passage, and so on. It was a lot of fun, but in typical Shed fashion, Steve, as  writer of the song, ultimately made the final calls.

In the end, we pretty much recorded it live.........very few post recording production add-ons.

THIS is what we ended up with. Hope you like it.

As you can hear, it's a plea to politicians to pull their fingers out and take action on important issues like the climate, immigration, straight talk and just plain honesty.

All very pertinent as we launch this song just a couple of days before the 2019 election !!

Steve wrote the music and played guitar

Mick Nadin sang and played harp

Graham Brown wrote the words, added backing vocals and percussion

Louise Nadin played bass

Pete played drums

Neil Porter produced

Nice work thanks Steve and crew.