This Thing In My Chest

Dont Throw It Away

Oh God

Call Up Dad

This first single, ‘A Feeling To Fly On’ is pure fairy floss, sausages, and show rides - a positive reflection on the strength we can learn to grasp firmly and distribute accordingly when times are brown and stinky”.

Featuring WILBUR WILDE & THE HORNS OF LEROY, this 2 and a half minute track boasts outstanding musicianship with Smith’s ‘whiskey as’ vocals uttering neon-lit lyrics 
with all the feels: ‘If you’re looking for a shoulder to cry on or a feeling to fly on, 
the strength of a lion or a bed to lie on, you can count on me.

A Feeling To Fly On feat Wilbur Wilde

Written and recorded in the hours after the end of Melbourne's last lockdown, I embraced this freedom while knowing I was feeling overwhelmed by the idea of walking out the front door. Anxiety is clear and present for so many people and in some cases, we don’t even know what we’re carrying with us on our way out the front door and into our social circles.

Things Ain't What They Used To Be

Beebah

Smith's 2014 record for the fine industry folk!

Presser:
Since his 2011 release ‘I Thought I’d Be Someone By Now’, potential candidate for a celebrated contemporary songwriter award but winner of none, Damon Smith has had 5 teeth pulled and has enjoyed the battle of a perpetually changing hairstyle due to a bastard, receding hair line. With a new life as a stay at home Dad and with weekend work around the country as a Boogie Woogie blues piano player, Smith says of his last few years with a baby girl in tow, “It’s been the most wondrous and horrible times of my life.”
His sufficient stockpile of issues, predicaments and complications have been discharged through his latest batch of songwriting, coming up with new a record...
But here's the thing, It stinks. This song in particular is crap. However, with friendly support and peer pressure, I thought I would put these tracks up one by one because, as much as I don't like them, music is indeed a subjective old thing. Please enjoy...or don't, It's all good..I mean bad...sheeeeze!

The Last Love Song.

‘It’s Time To Let The Wolves Out’ enters the room with strut and swagger, all souled-out and funked up with righteous backing vocals set against the backdrop of a hugely contagious melody.  It's a fitting opener to an album filled with those rare things - intelligent pop songs, 10 of them all up. Available for download alongside the single launch on the 10th of July at the Yarra Hotel, Abbotsford.
LP out Mid October.  

It's Time To Let The Wolves Out.

Track 7 off the last record. "I Thought I'd Be Someone By Now".

Miss My Surname

Damon is an award-winning composer, lyricist, 
music producer, writer, instrumentalist, filmmaker
and performer from Perth, now living in Melbourne.

As a musician, he has performed at countless 
theatres across Australia, written jingles, songs and 
composed ballet and has released several original 
albums. Appearing as a session piano player on 
numerous recordings he has also had music 
featured on television, stage and in short films. 
Working as a producer, he has also recorded several 
albums for local artists. Writing and creating across 
different art-forms and genres, Damon creates with 
the frequency of the tides with his work is often wry 
and thought-provoking, with loads of comedic 
absurdity and buffoonery thrown in.

As a hobby filmmaker, In 2021, Damon debuted 
his film, Mental As Everything after being selected
 for screening at cinema Nova as part of the the 
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.

Smith is a virtuosic piano player who can seamlessly flow between musical styles and currently performs in three of his own hugely contrasting stage shows that have all amassed 4 and a half and 5-star reviews.

In his show, Mental As Everything, Smith provides a funny, raw and thought-provoking cabaret that explores the multifaceted nature of mental illness through hilarious original songs and onstage buffoonery. Smith shares his deeply personal experience of living with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and bipolar disorder in a show that fathoms the highs and lows of living with a mental illness.

Smith is also co-writer/performer/producer, for Sun Rising - The Songs That Made Memphis, a world class, highly acclaimed stage show about the music of Sun Records and also created, CRAZY ARMS – A Few Centuries of Piano Tinkering, a preposterously zany, musical adventure that spans the origins of the piano from its birth in 1709 through to the 20th century.

Damon also produces and films the popular YouTube video performance series, ‘The Night Sky Is A Jewellery Store Window’ and has made over 50 videos (and counting) that feature local and international singer-songwriters including, Barney Mcall, Iiz Stringer, Ruby Boots, James Kenyon, Anna Cordell and more.

Damon Smith

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