Yesterday was a busy day. My time was taken up creating a nice environment in the studio before commencing to paint. As spring is in the air and daylight saving has extended extra hours of natural light, it seemed a perfect time to re-pot all our beautiful plants so that they form a nice cooling green backdrop for the summer months ahead. The plants also act as a natural barrier protecting us from the local bush turkey that regularly visits. Sunny days have a good effect on me; I seem to think more optimistically.
Then Jessie from "The Lucky Wonders" rang urgently needing a photo for a music magazine article. They had lost contact with their photographer who had taken some nice shots of them at an old red phone booth in Bangalow. Putting aside what I was doing, I said yes and 10 minutes later Jessie picked me up with my dog and off we went to do a photo shoot for their magazine article. Many photos later I was on my way back to the studio ready to begin painting and feeling upbeat for helping the girls out.
Jessie and Emma believe good music is contagious and with their new album to be released soon, there is a real buzz amongst their fans. They've been lucky enough to have Jessie's old friend Ben Franz from The Waifs come up to record the bass and some gorgeous lap steel on their album. There are two tracks I really love, Emotional and Happy Pill, and they can be heard on their myspace/theluckywonders
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Show/hide commentsWe’re home in Byron and couldn’t be more chuffed about it. We’ve been from the freezing rainy peaks of Cradle Mountain in Tassie to the hot springs and gorges of the Top End. So how was the tour you ask? It was wild, long, amazing, sweet, and fairly hitch free. Sunset gigs at Monkey Mia, Broome, and Darwin were some of the best bits. The numbers of family and long lost friends who kept popping up literally all over the country kept our slightly homesick hearts warm and happy. We came home to breathe a big contented sigh. After seeing so many of the most incredible places in the country, we are even more happy that we live in one of them.
We are hanging out to sing some new songs, and all the usuals of course, to our favourite home crowd tomorrow night. We saved the best for last and are having the official home town launch of Thirteen O'Clock this Friday 20th at Byron Bay Brewery, and the very last show of the Longest Tour in the Universe in Brizzy on Sept 3rd. Hope to see you tomorrow.
Jessie
Just want to congratulate The Lucky Wonders on their masterpiece 'Thirteen O'Clock', I played it on the way to work yesterday and I became so excited and emotional the tears were flowing.
Those songs mean so much to us, we feel so lucky to have watched them grow and form over the years and to hear them now produced so beautifully - pure magic!
I called my good friend Sean on the off chance that he'd be able and willing to take some pictures of us in a hurry. Being a long time fan of his painting, I trusted he'd have a photographic eye that would find beauty and magic in any subject. How true that was! Sean took to the task like the artist that he is, reminding Emma and I to feel our music, not to think, to bring all our awareness to the essence of our art. The afternoon light became a sunshine bath as it often does in our yert that we are blessed to call home. It houses us, our instruments, our sound gear, and from here we write our music and send it out to the world. Just like Sean's art, we fill our music with our love for life and for our fellow humans. Like Sean, we live in a place where feeling connected and grateful for life itself is easy. We named ourselves The Lucky Wonders to honour the good fortune we continuously receive, and happening on Sean's free afternoon for a spontaneous photo shoot is another blessing among many. We got to feel that love and sunshine and gentleness in the photo shoot with Sean, as though we became subjects in one of his incredible paintings.
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