Melodie Nelson

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Sweeping 60’s walls, lush production and sweet harmonies are just a few ways to describe Sydney songstress LIA TSAMAGLOU… also known as MELODIE NELSON.

This weekend Melodie will be launching her debut, ‘meditations on the sun’ and 2ser’s Mike Williams caught up to dig deeper into Lia’s background and this great album.

Catch Melodie Nelson tomorrow night at her album launch at GoodGod Small Club.  Tickets are $15 supported by the Magnetic Heads and Swimwear.

Broadcast on Friday Overdrive, 2ser 107.3, 2nd September 2011

New Beginnings

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This week I launched an ABC Pool project around the theme New Beginnings.  Pool is a fantastic community where members from anywhere in the country (or world) can submit various forms of media including text, audio, video and photos.  Projects help focus ideas and promote collaboration between members.  Anyone can start a project but ABC producers that start projects have the ability to collate work around an idea, promote through radio national and produce a piece for broadcast.  To launch the project I made a short promo video.  I made it to give (hopefully) an approachable face to the project so people could feel like I was an approachable source for bouncing ideas and helping with content.

Sietta

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Everyone loves to tell you Sietta are from the Darwin, partly because it’s great to hear something from the top end get such a great response in the metro music market.  We discuss this as well as sparse production, Caiti’s blues upbringing and why collaboration was key to the success of their debut, ‘The 7th Passenger’.  At the end of the interview I was lucky enough to be treated to a live, acoustic version of “What am I supposed to do”.

Sietta are on tour with The Herd in September.

Broadcast on Thursday Overdrive on 2ser, 11th Aug 2011

Melodie Nelson, ‘Orpheus She’s Gone (behind the scenes vid)

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Melodie Nelson is Lia Tsamaglou and apart from having a silent ‘T’ in her last name and being a top friend she also plays 50′s-60′s psych-pop music under the alias ‘Melodie Nelson’. As a big fan I’d mentioned to her that if she ever needed something filmed I’d be keen to help out, and sure enough it just so happened she was filming a clip for her new single ‘Orpheus She’s Gone’. Lia was hoping to get up a very short ‘behind the scenes’ look at how and why the film clip was made – I was the man for the job. This is the final result of hanging out for a couple of hours on the set of ‘Orpheus she’s Gone’, directed by Danielle Zorbos and filmed at Serial Space in Chippendale August 6, 2011. It will also serve as online content for the Into the Music documentry I’m making about iconic Australian music video TV show, Rage.

Mars Volta

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Mars Volta are insane.  Their shows are always high energy, unpredictable and full of long improvised sections.  I recently delved into their extended back catalogue and read up on the interesting history of the band for the 4th and final episode of Into the Music’s ‘Rock and the New’ series which I produced with Cathy Peters and Mark Don.  For the doco I interviewed Peter Callender, the biggest Mars Volta fan I know – he even travelled to their home country of Mexico to see them play live!

I had tried to arrange to speak to Cedric or Omar from the band for the ITM doc but unfortunately they were a bit too hard to nab.  A month after it went to air though I got a call from their publicist, “Mars Volta will talk” she said.  It wasn’t as dramatic as that but I certainly was excited.  TMV were coming to Australia to play Splendour in the Grass and also do some dates in Syd, Melb and Adel.  I decided to interview (I wasn’t going to turn down an interview with them was I?) and edit something together to go as extra audio on the Prog website but also to be played as a stand alone piece somewhere else on RN.  Night Air Live were keen and they played it in their monthly live show on the eve of Mars Volta’s Australian tour.

Broadcast on ABC RN, Night Air (live show) – 31st July 2011 ‘Housing the Situation’

ABC OPEN Application

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THEME MUSIC: Quirk
MUSIC: Epitomes – demo
(Both bands from the South Coast)

This video was made to go with my application to be an ABC Open producer.  Apart from family holidays on the south coast, I had never properly engaged with the community. I thought it was essential when applying for this position to get a sense of the people, the projects that already exist and the projects I might be able to assist with in the future.
I grabbed some gear, jumped in the car and drove to Nowra, just one town in the South Coast/Tablelands region.

I allowed myself just one day to talk to as many people as I could and produce this audio slideshow on the run. Unfortunately I didn’t have time to edit the photos but I’m proud of the effort and glad to now have such an insight on the area and what the ABC Open project could involve.