I've been recording new tracks,some here in Auckland with Eddie Rayner and Brett Adams,and some in Sydney with Tony Buchen(producing and playing bass) and Carlos on drums.They played the Byron Bay Blues festival with us recently and it was so good we have kind of been working together ever since.Carlos is the Poor Boy drummer for the Syd season which starts July 9th.Guy Pearce couldn't do it so we have Matt Newton as "Danny" and I know he'll be really good.
I'm recording a last track with Tony in Sydney at the end of the month.It's a brand new song called "The View Is Worth The Climb"...I wasn't expecting to write any more for a while,but it was one of those ones that you wake up humming,and race down to the piano before you forget.So that means 4 brand new tracks for the Anthology,which comes out early Oct.And a remake of Stuff and Nonsense with Missy Higgins.We also did a new version of "So Deep" from Big Canoe.That was in Auckland with Eddie,Brett,Wayne Bell on drums....we did it first take and it sounds atmospheric and very free...the way songs do when you don't overwork them...
Otherwise winter is coming down and swine flu is spreading....here in NZ they predict up to 2 million people may get it over the next couple of years which sounds ridiculous to me...in a country of 4million...maybe they're just covering themselves,but it does sound like a beat-up..."have you seen the little piggies"???????