Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter and guitarist. He has performed solo,and has led numerous groups,including the Dots,the Coloured Girls,and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups,including associated projects Professor Ratbaggy and Stardust Five. Kelly's music style has ranged from bluegrass to studio-oriented dub reggae,but his core output straddles folk,rock and country. His lyrics capture the vastness of the culture and landscape of Australia by chronicling life about him for over 30 years. David Fricke from Rolling Stone calls Kelly "one of the finest songwriters I have ever heard,Australian or otherwise". Kelly has said,"Song writing is mysterious to me. I still feel like a total beginner. I don't feel like I have got it nailed yet."
Sally Mary Seltmann,is an Australian singer-songwriter,multi-instrumentalist and Record producer. From 2000 to 2009,Seltmann used the stage name,New Buffalo. Under that name,Seltmann wrote,performed,arranged and produced her debut album,The Last Beautiful Day in September 2004. Her second album,Somewhere,Anywhere appeared in March 2007. Seltmann and Canadian singer-songwriter Feist,co-wrote the song "1234" which was featured in a 2007 iPod Nano commercial. It became a Top 10 hit on the United States Billboard Hot 100 for Feist. Seltmann is married to Darren Seltmann formerly of electronic music group,The Avalanches. In April 2010,Seltmann released her third solo album,Heart That's Pounding. Late that year,she formed an indie rock trio,Seeker Lover Keeper,with fellow Australians Sarah Blasko and Holly Throsby. They issued a self-titled album in June 2011,which peaked at number three on the ARIA Albums Chart. In 2013,Seltmann released her fourth solo album,Hey Daydreamer. In April 2018,Allen &Unwin published Sally Seltmann's debut novel Lovesome.
Machine Translations is the performing name of Greg James Walker,an Australian singer,songwriter and multi-instrumentalist;who is also a producer as J Walker. Walker started out recording all instruments himself in a home studio and later branched out to include a band.
Archibald William Roach was an Australian singer-songwriter and Aboriginal activist. Often referred to as "Uncle Archie",Roach was a Gunditjmara and Bundjalung elder who campaigned for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. His wife and musical partner was the singer Ruby Hunter (1955–2010).
Kevin Daniel Carmody,better known by his stage name Kev Carmody,is an Aboriginal Australian singer-songwriter and musician,a Murri man from northern Queensland. He is best known for the song "From Little Things Big Things Grow",which was recorded with co-writer Paul Kelly for their 1993 single. It was covered by the Get Up Mob in 2008 and peaked at number four on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) singles charts.
"From Little Things Big Things Grow" is a protest song recorded by Australian artists Paul Kelly &The Messengers on their 1991 album Comedy,and by Kev Carmody on his 1993 album Bloodlines. It was released as a CD single by Carmody and Kelly in 1993 but failed to chart. The song was co-written by Kelly and Carmody,and is based on the story of the Gurindji strike and Vincent Lingiari as part of the Indigenous people's struggle for land rights in Australia and reconciliation.
How to Make Gravy is a four-track EP by Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly and was originally released on 4 November 1996 on White Label Records in Australia. The title track was written by Kelly and earned him a 'Song of the Year' nomination at the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) Music Awards of 1998. It tells the story of a newly imprisoned man writing a letter to his brother,in which the prisoner laments that he will be missing the family's Christmas celebrations. The same character appears in Kelly's earlier songs,"To Her Door" (1987) and "Love Never Runs on Time" (1994). The gravy recipe is genuine –Kelly learnt it from his first father-in-law. It was covered by James Reyne on the 2003 tribute album,Stories of Me:A Songwriter's Tribute to Paul Kelly and on Reyne's 2005 acoustic album And the Horse You Rode in On.
Daniel Leo Sultan is an Australian alternative rock singer-songwriter and guitarist,actor and author. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2010 he won Best Male Artist and Best Blues &Roots Album for his second album,Get Out While You Can. At the 2014 ceremony he won Best Rock Album for Blackbird,which had reached number four on the ARIA Albums Chart. In 2017,Sultan's record Killer was nominated for three ARIA awards:Best Male Artist,Best Rock Album,and Best Independent Release. Sultan's debut children's music album Nali &Friends was named Best Children's Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 2019.
Jan Skubiszewski is an Australian composer,record producer,songwriter and sound engineer from Melbourne,Australia. He is also a professional multi-instrumentalist. His work as a record producer and composer for film and television has resulted in numerous gold and number one records,won critical acclaim and numerous awards and nominations at ARIA,APRA,AIR,Film Critics Circle of Australia,Logie Awards,Screen Music Awards,National Indigenous Music Awards.
Megan Alexanda Washington is an Australian musician and songwriter who has worked mononymously as Washington. Originally performing jazz music,her style shifted to indie pop and alternative rock. She has released four studio albums,I Believe You Liar,There There,Batflowers,and Hot Fuss (2022). Both I Believe You Liar and There There reached the top 5 on the ARIA Albums Chart and Batflowers peaked in the top 25.
Peter Stuart Robert Marin is an Australian drummer and percussionist. Marin joined Dan Sultan's backing band in 2006 and is recorded on Sultan's albums,Get Out While You Can,Blackbird and Killer. He provided drums and percussion on United Kingdom artist,Passenger's albums,Whispers,Whispers II,Young as the Morning,Old as the Sea,Runaway and Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted.
Leah Flanagan is an Australian singer-songwriter and arts administrator from Darwin,Northern Territory. based in Sydney. She has released several albums and has toured Australia with her music and as a part of festival ensembles.
The Australasian Performing Right Association Awards of 2011 are a series of related awards which include the APRA Music Awards,Art Music Awards,and Screen Music Awards. The APRA Music Awards of 2011 was the 29th annual ceremony by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and the Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) to award outstanding achievements in contemporary songwriting,composing and publishing. The ceremony was held on 21 June 2011 at CarriageWorks in Sydney,Australia. The Art Music Awards were introduced in 2011 to replace the Classical Music Awards and were distributed on 3 May. They are sponsored by APRA and the Australian Music Centre (AMC) to "recognise achievement in the composition,performance,education and presentation of Australian music". The Screen Music Awards were issued on 14 November by APRA and Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) at the City Recital Hall,Sydney which "acknowledges excellence and innovation in the genre of screen composition".
Spring and Fall is the nineteenth studio album by Australian folk rock singer-songwriter Paul Kelly which was issued in October 2012 on his own label,Gawd Aggie and distributed via Universal Music. It is due to be issued in Europe and United States in November. The release is his first studio album since Stolen Apples in 2007,and is a concept album as a song cycle "which focuses on a love story told from different points of view". It was produced by Kelly,Dan Kelly,and Greg "J" Walker and was available as a digipak or digital download. The lead single,"New Found Year",was released in early October ahead of the album's release. The album debuted on the ARIA Albums Chart at number eight.
Paul Kelly –Stories of Me is a 2012 Australian documentary directed by Ian Darling and produced by Shark Island Productions.
"Last Train to Heaven" is a song written by Paul Kelly for the album,Gossip,which was performed by his group,Paul Kelly &the Coloured Girls. It was re-written as "Last Train",a dance-orientated remake,and is the first single released by Christine Anu. Anu and Kelly performed "Last Train" as a duet,which was issued on 20 September 1993 and peaked at No. 93 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart in the following month. It was listed at No. 61 on national radio,Triple J's Hottest 100 for 1993.
Daniel Francis Luscombe is an Australian guitarist,producer and composer. He has been a member of The Blackeyed Susans,The Drones,Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males,Stardust Five,Spencer P. Jones &the Last Gasp and Paul Kelly and the Boon Companions,as well as playing alongside Courtney Barnett,Mick Harvey,Ariel Pink,Damo Suzuki,James Chance and Marlon Williams as a touring member of their bands. He has also produced albums for artists including Ben Salter,Fraser Gorman,Jaala,Bad Dreems,Martin Frawley,Courtney Barnett and Amyl and the Sniffers. He has composed for film with credits including Jindabyne,Hounds of Love and I Am Mother (2019).
Ian David Darling is a documentary film director and producer.
The Final Quarter is a 2019 Australian documentary,directed by Ian Darling and produced by Shark Island Productions,about the final stages of the Australian football career of Adam Goodes,during which he was the target of repeated booing by opposition fans.
