 Songman, educator, custodian, family man, friend. With Vic's farewell tomorrow my heart and head are focussed on him and kin. All of the beautiful photographs in this edition were taken by my love Liz Ham: the portrait above on Bidjigal land at La Pa, before Vic's annual Invasion Day concert last year; those below at the Recovery On The Rocks event we staged on Gadigal land back in 2021. Wednesday February the 19th ~ Just above the Tank Stream at Palmer & Co. 10 til 2 Friday February the 21st ~ Be A Little Cooler, if you can. 9.30 til 1.45 Saturday February the 22nd ~ Jack Off will pay tribute to Vic by replaying the first of our two interviews in full - where he takes us from a leaky mud-floored shack to child stardom, incarceration in Bathurst, recording The Loner in Long Bay and multiple dates at the Opera House as it opened. Vic also sings his iconic number (composed in gaol) Stranger In My Country unaccompanied, rendering it more stark and moving still. Astoundingly Vic talked then of being honoured to have been chosen as the support for Tex Perkins' gigs across two States, starting a week later. They would meet for the first time then. Tex is of course noted for his performances of Johnny Cash's prison songs. And guess who is my mooted guest this week? None other than Tex and his bad-ass band The Beasts (no strangers to mortality themselves). If it all comes off it will be perfectly fitting to hear their take on Vic and his craft too. Tune in to FBi (which is about to announce, also tomorrow, some catastrophic financial news, providing some context for the grave existential risk I have been alluding to for months now) between 3 and 5. Who knows if this facility can even endure? Afterwards it's the final of these free gigs this week, up top at Dean and Nancy on 22. 9 til 12.30 Comments are closed.
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