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'It feels like you can be a free person in Melbourne. There are lots of nooks and crannies to hide out in, and culturally it is a fascinating place.' Some of Australia’s best-loved music is forged in a humble shed behind an inner-suburban Melbourne house. The gap between Clare Bowditch conceiving a musical idea and committing it to tape need only be as long as the journey from her back door to a shed full of elderly analogue recording equipment. “It is a great opportunity to run out and put an idea down instantly,” Clare says. Her shed has been the birthing centre for three albums. ‘Midwifery duties’ fall to husband Marty Brown who is adept with the 24-channel desk and one-inch reel-to-reel tapes they prefer to use, and plays drums in her band The Feeding Set. They have also ‘collaborated’ on a young daughter and identical twin baby boys, which means that recording work often happens in hours snatched during sleep times. “When I’m with the children I am completely centred on them, but once they are asleep I get to work,” Clare says. “You have to be really passionate about music to even think of taking your family on the adventure with you. But the children keep us connected to the everydayness of life, and that is the main source of my songwriting.”FAVOURITE DAY TRIP: Sherbrooke Forest (www.parkweb.vic.gov.au) followed by a meal at the Cuckoo in the Dandenong Ranges. This is the day trip my family took religiously every time a relative from Holland visited. (508 Mount Dandenong Tourist Rd, Olinda, 03 9751 1003, www.cuckoorestaurant.com.au) FAVOURITE FOOD EXPERIENCE: Dinner at Pellegrini’s of minestrone, a granita, if I’m really hungry I’ll have the carbonara, then either apple strudel or crème brulee: the exact meal my parents always ordered. (66 Bourke St, Melbourne, 03 9662 1885) FAVOURITE NATURE-BASED EXPERIENCE: On the hottest day of summer, going to the Yarra River in Eltham and taking a swim.
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| Last Updated ( Friday, 24 July 2009 ) |
