Paul McLaney: Sunday Concert Series
Sunday 21 April, 6pm
Tickets: $35 / $25 (concession)
Concession prices available for students and over-65s.
In its ongoing commitment to support and provide opportunities for live performance, The Arts House Trust is proud to present the Sunday Concert Series 2024 - an eclectic array of musicians and musical genres showcasing local performers.
You would be hard-pressed to find a musician with a more diverse recorded output than Paul McLaney. In a career spanning over 20 years, the musician has released a remarkable body of work under various guises. Added to this are his collaborations with Anika Moa, SJD, Breaks Co-op, Julia Deans, Concord Dawn, Counterstrike, Fly My Pretties, Jeff Boyle (Jakob), Proteins of Magic, Magik Johnson, Eden Mulholland, Rhian Sheehan, Maisey Rika and the list goes on...
He’s lost track of how many albums are actually out there, but it's somewhere around the 30 mark. The unifying feature of all his work is that singular voice. “I’ve had everything from Bowie, Bryan Ferry, John Martyn, Chris Isaak, Scott Walker... my only thing about singing is conveying the emotion and doing it in tune...”
At the heart of it all though is the acoustic guitar. “No matter where the song ends up, that's generally where they start; on the guitar. One guitar in particular, one I’ve had since I was 16. I’d say 90% of the songs I’ve written have originated from that instrument.”
Paul McLaney joins us as part of his national tour this April.
“The music of John Martyn, Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens, Bert Jansch et al has been a constant in my adult life. The lone troubadour, a voice and self accompaniment. I see synchronicity between that sort of artist and electronic producers like Aphex Twin and Burial. Fundamentally one mind communicating.”
ABOUT THE PERFORMER
Paul McLaney has performed across many genres from acoustic finger-style guitar and lush string arrangements of his solo work ‘EDIN’ ‘Diamond Side’; to the ambient and experimental electronica of The Impending Adorations; prog-rock homage (Immram); the piano excursions of ‘The Old Traditions’ with Raashi Malik (“a highlight”); the Te Reo song settings of Shakespeare and an ever-expanding body of composition for theatre and dance – over 30 productions to date.
In regards to his diverse output McLaney explains, “My problem/strength (I’m not sure which, it’s probably both) is that by the time something is released I’m already on to the next thing. They’re all aspects of me. We all crave diversity; we’re all a conflicting mess of emotions and our appetites reflect that. It’s just that mine manifest in my music.” Learn more…