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An absolute pleasure to have your listening ears for our final podcast episode of 2024. As usual we celebrate great music in our December episode, with Chris’ top albums of the year. And this year he’s chosen twelve amazing albums, our 12 Albums for Christmas, and 1 EP as a stocking present.
Enjoy music from India Electric Co, George Boomsma, Brown Horse, The Shackleton Trio, Annie Dressner, Katherine Priddy, The Henry Girls, Kathryn Williams & Withered Hand, Ferris & Sylvester, The Decemberists, 5 Hills Out, Hope & Social, and Frankie Archer.
We chat about these albums in no particular order, as Chris loves each and every one of these albums, they are all brilliant.
Enjoy this episode, and we hope you’ll listen back to previous episodes of the Deepdale Podcast.
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India Electric Co
It’s full of really deeply layered, textured songs that require multiple listening, and you get more and more out of it the more you listen to it. So well crafted. They’re such good players and the album is a mix of really lush arrangements of fantastic indie folk pop songs … really, really good.
India Electric Co played a fabulous set at Deepdale Festival 2023. So we’re really looking forward to having the
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Hawksley Workman On Finding The Balance Between Musician And Playwright
Renowned for his signature fusion of cabaret and rock, Workman will be bringing his play The God That Comes to Tasmania’s Ten Days on the Island, as well as playing a handful of shows on the east coast.
“The play is a retelling of the Greek myth of The Bacchae, the god of wine, sex and revelry,” says Workman. “It ponders a rock’n’roll lifestyle and how it fits into a life well lived. Essentially the play asks, ‘What happens in a repressive culture when people are allowed to be expressive – artfully, sexually and in a way that might be prickly to a society at large?’ I was also trying to funnel some angry energy into a piece of art that had the latitude to be more nuanced. You can write a protest song or record but people are sort of resistant to those things. It’s nice to go exploring within the confines of theatre.”
Having spent decades performing as a musician, Workman is appreciative of the opportunity to experience another artistic community. “Doing theatre was a window into a community of people that were very exciting to be around. It’s a very interesting cross section of people,” says Workman. “There’s still a delusion in the music business that you might get rich. In theatre that