Production by Jenny M. Thomas & Dan Witton in association with the villagers of Crich, UK.
Supported by Live and Locak UK.

Call Australia

The Côr Of The Matter: Si Hwi Hwi practise audio
Arranged by Jenny M Thomas

Si Hwi Hwi demo recording

The Côr Rehearsals and demo tracks mashed together in a mix by Jenny M. Thomas

The Côr Rehearsal Taster

Traditional Irish/Australian folk song about a young man being fooled by a beautiful woman. He ended up as a convict, transported to Australia for a crime he did not commit. And she? She's still wearing that black velvet band.

Black Velvet Band Live at Bennetts Lane

The Wild Colonial Boy was a baby-bushranger. At 14 years old sentanced to 14 years hard labour at Old Melbourne Gaol.

Wild Colonial Boy With a Story and The Lonely String Quartet at The Melbourne Recital Centre

From the album 'The Natural Selection Australian Songbook'
Available to buy: 
Bandcamp: https://bushgothic.bandcamp.com/album/the-natural-selection-australian-songbook-2
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gr/artist/bush-gothic/id1045361617

John Williamson's iconic song given a burka and some incense. And breasts.

2. True Blue

From the album 'The Natural Selection Australian Songbook'
Available to buy: 
Bandcamp: https://bushgothic.bandcamp.com/album/the-natural-selection-australian-songbook-2
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gr/artist/bush-gothic/id1045361617

Traditional Australian Folk song arranged by Jenny M. Thomas

6. Heres Adieu To All Judges And Juries

From the album 'The Natural Selection Australian Songbook'.
Available to buy: 
Bandcamp: https://bushgothic.bandcamp.com/album/the-natural-selection-australian-songbook-2
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gr/artist/bush-gothic/id1045361617

Traditional Australian Folk song arranged by Jenny M. Thomas

8. Sixteen Thousand Miles

From the album 'The Natural Selection Australian Songbook'.
Available to buy: 
Bandcamp: https://bushgothic.bandcamp.com/album/the-natural-selection-australian-songbook-2
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gr/artist/bush-gothic/id1045361617
A goldrush song from Victoria, Australia. Sometimes you get sleek and fat and sometimes you have to hitch your swag.
Traditional Australian Folk song arranged by Jenny M. Thomas

9. Swag On My Shoulder

Available to buy: 
Bandcamp: https://bushgothic.bandcamp.com/album/the-natural-selection-australian-songbook-2
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gr/artist/bush-gothic/id1045361617

A swagman, a jumbuck and a billabong are the stars of this sad and sorry tale about a wanderer (or was he a pyromaniac unionist shearer on the run?) commiting suicide...

10. Waltzing Matilda

An excerpt from Bush Gothic's story piece on ABC Radio National's The Music Show. All about how I Fyw I Fôd was created.

Excerpt from ABC Radio National's The Music Show

Defiantly modern, achingly old, this most daring of Australian bush bands from Melbourne, Australia perform songs of criminal women and desperate men from an era of transportation, adventure and gold. Bush Gothic’s latest release The Natural Selection Australian Songbook was chosen as a runner up for fRoots 2016 Album of the Year, BBC Magazines Best World Music Albums of 2016. Concerts in Australian gaols, concert halls and goldfields have been reviewed as ‘outstanding’, ‘mesmerising…utterly riveting’.

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