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Dear Friends of Gurrumul,
Well the news keeps getting better for Gurrumul. He has just returned from a quick trip to London which was fantastic. It started off in spectacular style with a performance on the Jools Holland Show Later, which also featured the legendary Booker T and Taylor Swift. This set the stage for some very successful negotiations in regards to a European deal with leading Independent Record Label Dramatico. The album is now available in the UK through all outlets, with HMV currently giving front of store racking. As far as the rest of Europe goes, Dramatico are speaking with their European partners about release strategies for all European Territories.
The trip to London was very much a promotional exercise with a show at Union Chapel and two performances at the Great Escape in Brighton. The Union Chapel show was amazing, I have never seen an audience get to their feet so quickly for an ovation, it was such a beautiful venue and such a great audience. Gurrumul loved performing there and is very keen on returning to perform in other equivalent UK venues, which he will be doing in July. (Latitude Festival 19th July and QEH Room at Southbank 21st July).
On the day we left the UK, Gurrumul did a live performance with Simon Mayo on BBC Radio 2 which instantly created some very nice feedback from the audience. We all flew back to Australia (Melbourne) on the Monday evening and had a few days rest before a two song performance at the home of Australian Football (MCG) and then heading to the Melbourne venue, the Palais Theatre, for a concert. The concert also featured the brilliant East Timorese artist Ego Lemos.
There were two highlights to the Palais concert. This was the first time we used a short video piece to introduce Gurrumul to the audience. We are working on a documentary about Gurrumul and his musical journey, and Naina the director, has taken some extracts from the developing documentary which are played prior to the band coming on stage. I have to say that it adds such a lot to the show, as it is Gurrumul's Mum, Dad and Uncle talking about him as a little boy. The other highlight was that at the end of the show, Ego came on and he and Gurrumul did an East Timorese song together, even though Gurrumul does not as a rule do encores, he was more than happy to sing along with Ego.
The plan from here is to return to the UK in July for two shows. One at the Latitude festival on the 19th July, then a show at SouthBank on the 21st July, and then home maybe via Brisbane for a show there at the end of July. I will keep you all informed as to what is developing. We are certainly looking at a return to the UK and Europe in October/November.
Gurrumul thanks you all for your support.
Regards
Skinnyfish Music for Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
8:03 AM
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