Mick Harvey is best known as a founding member of The Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds as well as being a long- time collaborator to both Nick Cave & PJ Harvey.
Harvey is coming to the Frankston Arts Centre for first time to present his latest album with Amanda Acevedo 'Golden Mirrors'. the duo cover 11 songs by the American songwriter Jackson C. Frank, an almost forgotten but recently rediscovered folk singer from the mid-sixties, whose sole album release was produced by Paul Simon and who counted Laura Marling, Nick Drake, Sandy Denny, Mark Lanegan and Fairport Convention as fans.
Harvey explains “Amanda and I recorded ‘Milk & Honey’ for our first album together, Phantasmagoria in Blue. By complete coincidence, in the week of the single release, I was contacted by my friend, Guanluca, from Italy who was putting together a tribute to Jackson C. Frank for his ‘Love & Thunder’ collective project. We were more than happy to record a few more songs, Amanda in particular being a big fan of Frank’s work. We initially recorded three songs for the tribute project but we just kept going and eventually realised we could make our own album. The whole process was so enjoyable and the ideas just flowed. All the original recordings are just one or two guitars with singing and Frank’s later songs are only available as home recordings, non-studio demos or live. So the possibilities of expanding the songs through arrangements were huge, and that process was very rewarding and enjoyable.”
Presented by: Luna Live