“…an epic love story of a band where every song is their last. A never ending farewell tour.”
.UPCOMING.
.JULY 5 - farewell tour live at the renshaws - BRISBANE.
.JULY 30 - SIGNALS - MELBOURNE.
experimental psych-rock project by Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier. blending field recordings with powerful guitar riffs and soaring vocals
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Chanelle Collier: FAREWELL TOUR
“Music as refuge, escape, resistance. In that, it is an extension of all past references we have made to it. Grief started this. It was Joe’s Nephew’s death. A tragic and sudden exit that seemed equally inevitable and totally avoidable. Joe went to the studio and played loud while no one else was there; to drown it out [the grief]. It seemed important that no one else was there to hear it. He called it respite. And it has stayed in the practice. The sound. The respite. And the grief. This sound, this respite, this play, playing to make noise, to make something else. It seems now in saying it this way, like the sound work, this band art play (as in a play in theatre, a make believe band) should come directly from 'Play Something Else Cowboy', straight from our hero Debord, straight off the screen and from the wall of the bar. But no, it came deeper than that. From loss. The shock and loss of family first, and then deeper loss took its place. (The loss of our future lives as we had foreseen them and lived so fully towards them). And the original grief was replaced by an even truer and sharper one. The Lover. His true love's death-in-waiting. The makings of an epic love story of a band where every song is their last. A never ending farewell tour.”
