In late November 2015 I had just finished playing a gig in Adelaide, and was cruising around the city at about 2:30am with the windows down and “Africa” by Toto blasting out of the stereo nice and loud. Every time I was stopped at traffic lights, a surprising amount of random people were joyously singing along to it with me… I was surprised at how many people knew the words! It was jolly good fun. After the entertaining little sing-alongs with Radelaide’s party-goers, I headed North to get my usual pie fix at Bakery on O’Connell.

While I was in there smashing a late-night pie for the thousandth time, I was humming “Africa”, and then my fatigued brain suddenly came up with the idea of writing a song about Bakery on O’Connell, to the tune of Africa. A couple of lines popped into my head straight away, like “I smash the pies down at the bakery” (you know… truly inspired stuff). Not wanting to forget about this idea (like I do with so many others), I put a little note in my phone straight away.

That note stayed in my phone until well into the next year. It’s one of the many things that I was meaning to get to, but just never found the time. In late April 2016, I finally sat down on a Sunday arvo and wrote the whole song. That was as far as I got until June, when I managed to get into the studio to record it at last!

Normally with any project I create in my studio (be it an original or a cover), I record everything myself from scratch. Unfortunately for this song however, I knew I would just never find the time to learn all the music and record so many instruments… the song is really quite complex! So for the first time ever, I totally cheated and just downloaded a karaoke version of Africa to use as a backing track for my vocals.

Even though I basically just had to do vocals, I spent many long hours learning harmonies, recording, editing and mixing. This song is absolutely brimming with vocal tracks! The end result sounds pretty schmick though, so I’m glad I chose to do it properly. Those tasty Toto harmonies are genius!

Anyhoo… here is my finished dedication to one of my favourite places on Earth… the home of piedom in South Australia… the pride of the North side… the purveyor of baked goods to my mouth whenever I’m in need… 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Grab a pie and crank it up! Bakery on O’Connell rules! :)

Bakery on O'Connell Song

I'll try and keep this short...

I was born in Loxton on February 4th, 1981 into a pretty musical family. My grandpa was a singer, my dad is a singer/guitarist and my older brother is also a singer/guitarist. It was only fitting (and hardly surprising) that I followed in their footsteps.

I've been playing the guitar for pretty much as long as I can remember, and I really should be a lot better at it by now, but I just don't practice! Naughty me! I also started singing when I was about 18 or so (when I finally got the courage to do it). As well as guitar, I'm also pretty handy on bass, drums and keyboard. I also shake a pretty mean tambourine!

Over the years I've been in a few bands, starting with the infamous "Fat Ankles" in year 8 at Loxton High with my mates Juice, Romers and Goodo. After High School came "Dead Panda Sandals" (later re-named to "The Loose Cannons") and then a couple of years later I joined "Sector 7G", which became a big passion of mine. We did pretty well for four local boys... we released two CDs, had airtime on Adelaide radio, made a few DVDs, played plenty of Adelaide gigs, did some festivals with big-name bands, got write-ups in magazines, etc. The G lasted 5 years, but unfortunately, all good things come to an end.

For over seven years now I've been in my current band "The Door Snakes" with my mates Gogs & Diamond Dave. We enjoy immense popularity locally, and our public Loxton shows are always chockas! We're a cover band, and I like to think we play a pretty vast range of songs, that pretty much everyone can enjoy. If you haven't experienced the craziness of a Loxton Door Snakes show, then I thoroughly recommend it!

In the last few years I have bought some really cool recording gear, and made myself a nice little studio in my house. Using results from a brief online poll among my friends, I named it "Suck My Studio"... classy, eh! Thanks to a lot of help from Wattsy (my studio guru), I'm now reasonably handy with Pro Tools, and have recorded quite a few songs.

I'm a very busy chap, and unfortunately I hardly find the time to get into my studio. Hopefully I can slink in there a lot more this year somehow! The tunes I've recorded so far have mainly been silly songs, cover tracks, or tunes written specially for mates. These songs have been really good opportunities to gain experience with the software, hardware, microphones, recording processes, etc. But I guess you could say I'm still yet to "get serious" and record some original Tristan Kemp masterpieces. I now feel I have enough experience in the studio to start doing this!

I enjoy having mates around to record stuff in my studio. Some mates have "guest starred" on songs with me, and other mates have used the studio to record their own stuff. The single aim of having the studio there is to have fun. It's a cool hobby! And I don't plan to profit from any of the music I make... in fact, I plan to upload all my songs so that people can listen to them for free. If you like any of my stuff, feel free to drop me a line and I can Email you an mp3... or of course, you can download them straight from SoundCloud. Careful though... some of the songs contain some naughty language!

I don't have any limits when it comes to songs I record... nor do I take myself too seriously. I'm a metalhead at heart, but I also have a good sense of humour... so expect everything from epic metal masterpieces, to silly jingles, to comedy tunes, to cover songs, to ballads, to dance tracks!!! Yes... I have many plans! Tee hee hee!

I'm currently doing an ongoing awesome project with Juice (my old school buddy and former Fat Ankles bandmate) called "STUTAP". It stands for "Slave To Uncle Tom's Appetite for Poundcake". Great name, eh! If you're a fan of 80's metal, you should be able to pick out the four song/album names we pinched to come up with our name. "The Tap" (as we like to call it) is all about fun and filth! Juice and I co-write the songs, and record them together. We've done a few songs so far, and they're on here... so check them out! Our main influence for The Tap is Steel Panther... so be prepared for some dirty, hard rocking hilarity!

Cheers for looking at my page. Dang... it seems I didn't try hard enough to keep this short! If you wanna drop me an Email, my address is terrytodger@hotmail.com

And don't forget to "like" my Facebook page: "Tristan Kemp's music" (the link straight to the page is on here).

Gooooood tiiiaaams!!!

Tris.

Just your average metalhead who plays guitar in his mums basement to the audience of the internet.

Adelaide based hobby guitarist that likes jamin' and writing songs. anything heavy metal with a strong thrash metal influence

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Composer/Guitarist/Producer

Songs: We find them unpainted in our hands, throw them up into the air of our imagination, turning them in the colours we see after we close our eyes until they feel just right, and sometimes we catch them perfectly, without blemishing them...

My music is on most platforms for your ease.

Wow!!  417K+ plays and 4,000+ valued followers and friends on SC alone, that provide lots of wonderfully helpful comments that fuel the next track! Really big thanks to the SC community for listening and providing such brilliant feedback and support. It means so much to myself and my collaborators - huge thanks.

I work in different styles, as the inspiration, dreams or bubonic plagiarism comes! I use Logic Pro X on Mac.
 
I write, produce and play all my own stuff (unless otherwise stated), play vintage Tokai Strats mainly, PRS Torero, Steinberger, Gretsch G2627T, Classical, Fender Dreadnought, Yamaha and Rickenbacker basses, keyboards and sax. I use Native Instrument's Komplete, Omnisphere 2 and my own organic samples.

I mix on Sennheiser HD 280 Pro's and HD 650's (closed and open headphones) when not making a bigger noise through my Yamaha HS8 studio monitors. I use Focusrite Clarett 2Pre ThunderBolt and Apogee audio interfaces, Neumann & iSK condenser & AKG dynamic mics. 

Hardware: Feb 1978 Marshall JMP 50W Combo, BOO & BOSS stomps

I love collaborating with other musicians and will compose with, play guitar for, produce, arrange, master or even just hum along with other SC musicians. Please ask!

P.S. I am a long standing member of the Performing Rights Society and PPL through my old TV and theatre work as well as my record and publishing deals.