The Monthly interviews Community Musician, Lindy Morrison – Part 7 – Playing, Touring and Recording

Where to now?

During Covid I really started to work hard on my playing and I was very fortunate to get a gig with a musician called Rob Snarski. The band is called SnarskicircusLindyBand  and we have just released a mini album titled,  “SomebodySaid that Somebody Said”,  and I have been touring with him for the last 18 months and we have just finished an album.

I worked with a young woman called Alex the Astronaut, a very popular artist, and she hadn’t worked with a drummer before, she had just written her songs. I added drums to those songs and we toured all the festivals.

I came over to Newcastle on Tyne to work with a band called The Girl with the Replaceable Head, the key person in that band is a person called Taffy Hughes from a band called Hurrah. I recorded an album with them remotely and I toured with them as well. I was never happy with the recording and so I agreed to come over to the UK and record another album and I am really happy with that. We recorded that album in Polestar Studios which was set up by Pauline Murray from the band Penetration.

thegirlwiththereplaceablehead.bandcamp.com/album/loves-lost-lovers-lost

I have just been offered other gigs in Australia and that is great. I am 71 years old and I expect that I have another 4 or 5 years to keep playing. It is ridiculous to assume that I can play forever.

One of the things that I was made aware of when I worked at Support Act was how young musicians are when they die. But all in all I feel that given the huge break in my music career, I am still playing and I am playing well and I intend to as much of that as I can while I am still able.

For more information regarding the work of Lindy Morrison see the links below

www.youtube.com/@lindymorrison1

www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010960934133

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