Taken from Funemployed LP.
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News (1/11/15)
- Funemployed has been nominated for the Most Underrated Book award. (It’s a thing.) I recently presented Funemployed: The Sequel at Bigsound feat. Jen Cloher in scintillating form.
- Crazy Bastards was nominated for Best Performance at the Online Video Awards.
- My ditty ‘I Hate Myself’ was recently featured on RN’s Earshot during mental health week. Still got it.
- Here’s a clip of my Ode to Melbourne inspired by a John Bracks painting at the NGV.
- Christmas gift ideas galore at the BP Shop.
News (1/8/15)
- Crazy Bastards has been nominated for an AWGIE in the ‘Drama or Comedy, Other Form’ division. It’ll be announced Sep 11.
- I’ll be presenting a Funemployed panel at BIGSOUND 2015.
- Funemployed LP is out on Bandcamp and iTunes.
- I recently appeared at Margaret River Writers Festival & Music NT conference in Darwin. The new website photos were taken in Darwin by Elise Derwin.
- If anyone wants me, I’ll be writing another book.
Happy New Album Day!
Funemployed LP is available from Bandcamp, iTunes, or CD from BP shop.
Eight stripped back anthems for creatives living in a material world. I’m Selling Myself has BP milking himself like a cash cow ‘whose farmer lost interest,’ while in single Food Is The New Rock and Roll he threatens to ‘quit music to pursue hospitality’ acknowledging that the hipster food craze might have broken him.
The album features cameos from Tim Rogers, Sam Simmons and Brian Ritchie. BP responded to Brian’s metaphor of ‘If you walk into a store and buy a chicken, it doesn’t mean you reject fish’ by penning the song Fish Finger, told from the perspective of a prawn sitting in a bain marie. It’s Cat Power meets Brand Power.
photo: Yvette Coppersmith.
New singles! New album!
Here are the first two cuts from ‘Funemployed LP’ dropping March 20.
The Bedroom Philosopher – Funemployed LP (2015)
Available from Bandcamp & iTunes
1. Art Hole (Bonus track)
2. I’m Selling Myself
3. Fish Finger
4. I Hate Myself
5. Ian Thorpe Was Bored
6. One In a Million
7. Jenny Star
8. Food Is The New Rock and Roll
Written by Justin Heazlewood.
Produced by Garry Havrillay & Justin Heazlewood.
Additional engineering and mastering by Richard Girvan.
Recorded at ABC Studios, Southbank.
Brian Ritchie, Sam Simmons, Tim Rogers: Interviews.
Hanna Silver: Piano on Fish Finger.
Richard Cartright: Bass, percussion on Food Is The New Rock and Roll.
Michael Shirrefs: Percussion on Art Hole.
Erin Lyall: Photos.
Special thanks to series producer Michael Shirrefs and executive producer Claudia Taranto.
The Black Cat
Jealousy, bitterness, intrigue. It’s all there in this package from Art Day! where I read Funemployed in its entirety.
RN Podcasts.
Funemployed: Gotye
Funemployed: Fame airs Thursday at 10:30am. Wally and I discuss multiple song theory.
Zeitgeist! (It’s German for ‘Internet.’)
On a day when I perform new song ‘I Hate Myself’ on RN, Damian Cowell (TISM) promotes my guest spot on his track ‘I Wanna Be Loved By Me.’
Post by Damian Cowell.