thumped.com

POD presents

(OF THE BAD SEEDS)

Saturday August 8th

CrawDaddy – Harcourt St – Dublin 2.

Doors – 8pm

Tickets €12/15 available from Ticketmaster, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets.

Conway Savage is best known as keyboard/piano player with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, having joined them for the ‘Good Son’ tour in 1990 and has been a key member since then, contributing to celebrated albums such as ‘Murder Ballads’, ‘The Boatman’s Call’ and ‘Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus’.

He is also a highly respected solo artist and has released several recordings over the last 15 years, from his debut EP (1993), to his collaboration with Australian singer/songwriter Suzie Higgie on ‘Soon Will be Tomorrow’ (1998) to his first solo album proper ‘Nothing Broken’ (2000) featuring Mick Harvey and Martyn Casey, to ‘Wrong Man’s Hands’ (2004), ‘Rare Songs & Performances’ (2005) & ‘Quickie for Ducky’ (2007).

Conway has worked with everyone you can think of from the Australian music scene including Robert Forster (The Go-Betweens) and David McComb (The Triffids).

Conway follows in the great tradition of musicians who take their inspiration from country music, and like his heroes Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark and Willie Nelson, Conway has that rare ability to inhabit a song completely, making his live shows intimate and memorable. He is a singer with subtlety, emotion, respect and a deep understanding of the song, his accompaniments are in total sympathy with what he’s singing about. This quality is exemplified in his versions of Jim Yamouridis’ ‘The Cross’ and the traditional song ‘Fair and Tender Ladies’. As the man himself tells it:

“(with) ‘Fair and Tender Ladies’, any time I play a gig anywhere, I can play that and just close my eyes and know I’m gonna feel really good and set the scene for myself. It’s like breathing for me now to do that song, where you can let yourself stop thinking about being onstage.”

Conway will be releasing a live album to coincide with his Irish tour this August. Entitiled ‘Live In Ireland’, this wonderful album was recorded in The Glens Centre Manorhamilton in October ’08 and mixed later by Derek Turner at Tumbleweed Studios. He will be joined on tour by his band Amanda Fox (keyboard/vocal/accordion) and Robert Tickner (guitar/vocal). Special guest for the tour will be Mark Corcoran.

August tour dates

Thu 6th The Glens Centre, Manorhamilton Tickets €15 www.theglenscentre.com

Fri 7th Roisin Dubh, Galway Tickets €15 www.roisindubh.net

Sat 8th Crawdaddy ,Dublin Tickets €12 standing €15 seated www.pod.ie

Thu 13th Spirit Store, Dundalk Tickets €15 www.spiritstore.ie

Fri 14th Black Box Belfast Tickets £12 www.blackboxbelfast.com

You can hear selections of his work on: