Tuesday, May 05, 2009

On my new favourite singer/songwriter/chanteuse

On my new favourite singer/songwriter/chanteuse

Yeah, Megan Washington.

An up-and-coming chanteuse living in that there Australia of whom I knew diddly until about a month ago until I chanced across a Twitter post by (I think) the highly esteemed Father Ted writer Graham Linehan praising the Keith Loutit Bathtub IV video, which I subsequently posted here.

Eschewing my usual approach to people of a certain celebrity (pick-axe handle, tin bath, sack of quicklime), I approached the charming Ms Washington via MySpace and learned of her plans for a mini-album next month.

Obsessed, me?

More for my benefit rather than anybody else (My blog, nyer), I've collected all the videos of My New Favourite Singer/Songwriter/Chanteuse in one place.

Joyless Kings of Leon obsessives may wish to express their outrage at the King of the Rodeo cover elsewhere, because it is full of WIN.

The Bamboos & Megan Washington – King of the Rodeo


Clementine: Official video

Ishmael: Live, may include traces of piano

Lightwell: In a darkened room

80 Miles: In the middle of a darkened Sydney

Underground:

Washington: Underground from shoottheplayer.com on Vimeo

Quite finished? Yes, finished.


On unexpected anniversaries

My mother died, aged 61, in May 2000. Today would have been her 70th birthday.

Happy birthday, Mum.

Not crying. Just got something in my eye. Both eyes.

25 comments:

Pseudonymph said...

*Hands Scary a tissue, knowing the sadness of parent death anniversaries.

Megan Washington. Is only just the beginning. Loadsa musical talent down here. We can all sing and we all wear quirky glasses that make us look intellectually schexy.

The Wrath of Dawn said...

Seconded.

The Wrath of Dawn said...

Um, is it just me or does she look like Juliette Lewis?

Debster said...

Who is Juliette Lewis?

Scaryduck said...

She's someone who looks like Australia's M. Washington. So I hear.

Squeakypony said...

Still think Keith Loutit video and music are a perfect match ( much better than the official Clementine video ).

p.s. I was going to see Ms Washington at The Power House, on Scary's recommendation, but she canceled :0(

Erin said...

Dawn - she looks much healthier than Juliette Lewis, I think. And seems to be expressing her talent better, too. ;)


Scary - sorry you're having a sad day. It either means you are an excellent son, or perhaps more likely she was an excellent mum.

#Debi said...

Unfair to put something in my eyes like that, Scary. RIP to your mum...

I concur that Ms. Washington is in fact full of WIN. Not heard of her before, but I like her, yes I do.

Scaryduck said...

Erin: The latter, I should think.

Brennig said...

She's talented, I'll see if I can get her featured on the podcast. There's a lot of good unsigned music in Oz at the moment - 16mm, The Good China to name but two.

Richard said...

Original comment cancelled in the light of...

The sun's just come out here.

Amicirichard said...

Scarymum was indeed an excellent lady.

Full of teh kind, and full of teh fun...and always did her best to get you out of teh trouble if you were involved in a Scary misadventure before you had to go home and face your own parents.

Scaryduck said...

Thanks, Amicirichard

The Wrath of Dawn said...

I should say she had a lot of experience in that last one.

Agree with Erin re JL.

isolator42 said...

ooh, she's good that Megan Washington. I get the feeling she's going to be big & not in a pie-eating way.
Is "Underground" a cover version, or her own song? It's fantastic.

Scary, nice of you to remember your mum like that.
You can't beat a good mum to set you up for life, so that you are able to cope with what life throws at you.
I've seen it so many times - people with "issues" as adults so often had real trouble with their own parents.
I'm trying to do the best for my kids, like my parents did for me.

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