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Pete Murray Is Headed To Cairns to Play Tanks Arts Centre
There is no real better way to start a Monday morning that having a coffee on your balcony, with the north Queensland rain falling on the tin roof trying to do a phone interview with one of Australia’s best singer songwriters Pete Murray.
On the phone from his home just outside of Byron Bay he is just back from Melbourne where he performed on The Project to announce his solo acoustic tour.
Mentioning that this is a big tour Pete acknowledges that “Yeah, it's enormous, it's enormous mate, it's the biggest one we have ever done in Australia and also the first time I have gone out solo in Australia.”
Being the twentieth anniversary of his acclaimed album See The Sun he says “I think the, you know, I have been playing for years, I mean, we looked at these shows. And, we kind of thought you know, it's the time. You know, it's been like, pretty much 20 years. We just kind of thought lets do it now and it worked out well. But you know, I wasn't expecting such a big quantity of shows.”
But we guess that’s what happens when you involve other people like managers and they start saying things like “you haven’t been to Darwin for a while”…Pete and I laugh and he responds “Yeah, a lot of people making money out of me (laughs)”
Speaking about the album being twenty and seeing it with some distance Murray says “Yeah, good question. Good, you know, I set out a long time ago to write songs, we picked something out of them that means something to people. You know whether it's a couple in hard times, wherever it might be. It can still talk to you about things.” He continues “I'm not used to hits, but I've got a lot of songs that people have liked and that's allowed me to continue to tour, with big-sized tours, which I feel very, very lucky to be able to do, if I may be honest as you know, it's been a very hard business to even, sort of, make a living there with life. I feel very blessed about that.”
Wondering how he will prepare a set list for these shows with such a back catalogue of songs Murray reflects that he likes to give the audience what they want but also acknowledges Feeler and See The Sun was released at a time when people recorded whole albums and audiences listened to whole albums “there are always people in the crowd that like songs that weren’t released as singles and like to play for them also”
Pete Murray has a new single out “I am Fire” the lead single from his forthcoming album which will be released later in the year check out his website to keep up to date petemurray.com
Pete Murray will perform Solo and acoustic at Tanks Arts Centre on Sunday 15th of June, it is a 15+ show tickets from Ticketlink HERE
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