Newish album by Pesky Bones AKA Peter Farnan, feat. Paul Kelly, Rebecca Barnard & loads of other brilliant artists!
March 24, 2017 Leave a comment
Pesky Bones is Peter Farnan… Plus
Wow. With all the distractions of the last little while I missed the fact that my Melbourne friend Peter Farnan, brilliant singer-songwriter-musician, member of esteemed Aussie rock hitmakers Boom Crash Opera, and all-round nice guy, has released Pesky Bones Vol. 1, an album featuring other artists singing his songs.
And not just any artists, but the crème de la crème of hip Antipodean artistry. How about this four, for a start…
See below for the complete list but I want to get a song in without you having to scroll down.
Paul Kelly & Rebecca Barnard
To draw you in, here’s an empty-nest song that a lot of us can relate to, with Paul Kelly & Rebecca Barnard in a captivating duet, here harmonizing, there weaving carefully around each other:
Pete in his studio
Nice, eh? But I also want you to see this – Peter doing his own energetic, stripped-down version of “Intuition”. At one point he sings into his electric guitar. And his faithful vintage Casio keyboard gets a spin too.
And I like the fact that his studio doesn’t look like a studio, and it hasn’t got a big mixing desk or, really, any visible fancy studio gear. And there are loads of books. And he uses an all-in-one guitar effects unit, not a carefully curated selection of arcane, boutique devices strung together in a big wooden box.
In other words, it’s like mine.
Who else is on it?
Pesky Bones is Peter Farnan with:
- Rebecca Barnard – vocals
- Ali Barter – vocals
- Shannon Birchall – double bass
- Simon Burke – vocals
- Paul Capsis – vocals
- Deborah Conway – vocals
- Tony Floyd– drums
- Charles Jenkins – vocals
- Paul Kelly – vocals
- Sean Kelly – vocals
- Emily Lubitz – vocals
- Peter Maslen – drums
- Richard Pleasance – double bass
- Tim Rogers – vocals
- Dan Tobias – vocals
- Sarah Ward – vocals
- All other instruments and singing by Peter Farnan
