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KAV TEMPERLEY SHARES NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO ‘GRADUATION DAY’ FEAT. KATY STEELE

+ ANNOUNCES PART 1 OF EPIC AUSTRALIAN REGIONAL TOUR

PHOTO CREDIT: JARRAD LEVY

Two Aussie music legends collide in stirring fashion via Eskimo Joe frontman Kav Temperley’s latest solo outing, with Kav teaming up with Little Birdy’s very own Katy Steele for the charming new single Graduation Day. Releasing today alongside an equally blissful accompanying music video, Graduation Day is a sparkling addition to Kav’s impending new solo album Machines of Love & Grace which is set for release in September. And new music isn’t the only surprise for fans in 2022, with Kav also revealing part one of a huge regional Australian tour kicking off in Exmouth, before hitting Bendigo, Tallarook, Warrnambool, Newcastle, Gosford, Illawarra and Canberra.

Tickets are on sale now from www.kavtemperley.com.au.

Graduation Day kicks off with humid percussion and glistening melodics before dovetailing into a calm and creamy ode to small town love and Kav’s very own real-life graduation day traditions growing up in Fremantle, Perth. Co-written by long-time friends Kav and Katy and recorded at Kav’s studio in Fremantle and at Sundown Studios, Graduation Day also boasts Lee Jones and Sacha Seaboune on guitar and Elliot Smith on drums, culminating in a fresh and endearingly intimate ode to rites of passage and connectivity, as Kav explains, “Growing up in Fremantle, it used to be a right of passage to jump off the old traffic bridge into the river on graduation day. People would pull over their cars and yell at you for being reckless and dangerous. The song Graduation Day is the story about someone who stayed behind and somebody who chose to leave, and about how no matter how far you go – there is always this tether pulling you back”.

Bringing together two of Australia’s most recognisable vocalists, Graduation Day not only helped Kav spark inspiration following two years of ongoing isolation; it also offered a chance for Kav and Katy to professionally reconnect years after their own intertwining formative musical moments, as Kav elaborates, “Myself and Katy have been friends for many, many years. Katy did her first Little Birdy demos in the back shed of my old house while Eskimo Joe were writing our second album A Song Is A City. We almost asked Katy to join Eskies playing keyboards, but Little Birdy was such a great musical project that it would have been criminal if she didn’t get out there and become the musical goddess that we all new she was destined to become. After two years of such extreme isolation, it was an absolute pleasure to get in a room together and work on some new music. You never know if the magic is going to happen when you sit down to write a song with someone, but Graduation Day just felt right straight away”. Echoing Kav’s sentiments, Katy shares, “Kav is such a great writer and musician and I’ve always had a tonne of respect for him. This song showcases what a great writer he is so I am truly honoured to be on it! We’ve been hanging out a little recently working on stuff and Kav played me the song in the studio. I guess we share a slight affinity both being the ‘lead singers’ doing solo stuff and all the feelings, pressures and emotions that come with it. It’s been so nice sharing those feelings together, it’s made me feel less alone”.

Fittingly complementing the real-world connection to Kav’s own graduation day memories, the music video for Graduation Day features Kav’s hometown in Fremantle, with Kav on directing and editing duties alongside Fremantle filmmakers Joseph London and Luna Laure. Drumming up the small town vibes with genuine hits of nostalgia, the music video is as much a love letter to Kav’s youth as it is a vivid gateway to tangible and universal reminiscence and small town life, as Kav reveals, “The video for Graduation Day tells the story of what it means to live in a small town. It’s a snapshot of Freo, with beautiful footage of the port town by Joseph London and performances shot by Luna Laure. Graduation Day is a look back at the sliding door moments of our lives where everything seemed hopeful and possible, and it features the old Fremantle traffic bridge that we used jump off as a right of passage on graduation day”.

Founding the ARIA award-winning, four-times platinum band Eskimo Joe at the tender age of 19, Kav evolved from winning a band competition into a legacy-shaping musicial powerhouse as the frontman, bass player and songwriter for the beloved Aussie group. With their breakout single Black Fingernails, Red Wine releasing in 2006, and subsequently spending 62 weeks in the Top 50, Kav went on to write and record seven studio albums with Eskimo Joe.

As a solo artist, Kav is now poised to release a brand new album this September, Machines of Love & Grace, which shares its name not only with Kav’s most recent single prior to Graduation Day, but also with the theory that humans are outliers on the planet – a virus upon it, putting hefty emphasis on love and empathy; ideals which don’t really exist in the animal kingdom. We are, in effect, machines of love and grace.

Alongside Kav’s extensive career fronting Eskimo Joe, he’s also a seasoned performer both onstage and onscreen, having toured nationally and internationally in Asia, America and Europe, while also continuing to blaze trails in the music industry as an expert and mentor in creativity and songwriting. And while the impending release of new solo material has already sparked excitement into the latter half of 2022, fans will also be able to catch Kav live in action later this year on his freshly-announced multi-stop regional Australian tour. Armed with brand new material as well as a look into some favourite songs before they were famous, these regional shows will be a beautiful celebration of Kav’s personal and professional experiences over the past few years and beyond, as Kav enthuses, “I’m looking forward to going everywhere as it’s been a good 3 years since we’ve been able to tour the country. The shows will feature songs from my last two solo albums as well as a look at how some of the biggest Eskimo Joe songs sounded when I wrote them before they became the familiar radio hits everyone has come to know”.

An APRA, WAM and OceanFloor Music ambassador currently in his seventh year of running creative workshops, 2022 ultimately finds Kav creatively potent and primed to share incredible musical collaborations as well as intimate and reflective material, with Machines of Love & Grace set to offer a snapshot of and a springboard for collective storytelling, as Kav concludes, “Machines of Love & Grace will be released in September this year and it features a whole bunch of fantastic collaborations, and documents the two and a half years of the pandemic.This will not be a list of what happened over the past two years but hopefully act as a mirror for everyone to get their own stories from.”

Graduation Day feat. Katy Steele is out today, Monday July 4.

Machines Of Love And Grace is set for release in September 2022. Tickets to the Australian regional tour are onsale now from www.kavtemperley.com.au.

Listen: GRADUATION DAY FEAT. KATY STEELE Watch: GRADUATION DAY FEAT. KATY STEELE

KAV TEMPERLEY SOLO TOUR DATES

THURS 14 JULY | FROTH, EXMOUTH WA Tickets are available from https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/b0240a99-4015-4354-8f39-fe8f8141a8ed

THURS 4 AUG | GOLDEN VINE, BENDIGO VIC Tickets are available from https://events.humanitix.com/kav-temperley

FRI 5 AUG | OUR FRIENDS FARM, TALLAROOK VIC Tickets are available from https://events.humanitix.com/kav-temperley-eskimo-joe

SAT 6 AUG | LIGHTHOUSE THEATRE (STUDIO), WARRNAMBOOL VIC Tickets are available from https://www.lighthousetheatre.com.au/kav-temperley

WED 10 AUG | THE GAL, NEWCASTLE NSW Tickets are available from https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/50a59594-fb69-4dd9-a23a-d47dad0c41f4

THURS 11 AUG | DRIFTERS WHARF, GOSFORD NSW Tickets are available from https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/cb251378-f975-47aa-a4f3-e268d96d4112

FRI 12 AUG | ILLAWARRA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE, THE MUSIC LOUNGE, ILLAWARRA NSW Tickets are available from https://merrigong.com.au/shows/kav-temperley/

SAT 13 AUG | CANBERRA THEATRE CENTRE, THE STUDIO, CANBERRA ACT Tickets are available from https://tickets.canberratheatrecentre.com.au/event_dates/ctc_kav_temperley_22.aspx

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Eskimo joe frontman kav temperley announces new single and solo regional tour dates.

Eskimo Joe frontman Kav Temperley has delivered another slice of sublime solo material, this time teaming up with Little Birdy’s very own Katy Steele for the charming new single Graduation Day.

Released alongside an equally blissful accompanying music video, Graduation Day  is a sparkling addition to  Kav ’s impending new solo album  Machines of Love & Grace  which is set for release in September.

New music wasn’t the only surprise for fans this week however, with Temperley also revealing part one of a huge regional Australian tour kicking off in Exmouth, before hitting Bendigo, Tallarook, Warrnambool, Newcastle, Gosford, Illawarra and Canberra.

Keep up with the latest music news, festivals, interviews and reviews  here .

‘Graduation Day’ kicks off with humid percussion and glistening melodics before dovetailing into a calm and creamy ode to small town love and Temperley’s very own real-life graduation day traditions growing up in Fremantle, Perth.

Co-written by long-time friends Temperley   and Steele and recorded at Temperley’s studio in Fremantle and at Sundown Studios, ‘Graduation Day’ also boasts Lee Jones and Sacha Seaboune on guitar and Elliot Smith on drums, culminating in a fresh and endearingly intimate ode to rites of passage and connectivity.

“Growing up in Fremantle, it used to be a right of passage to jump off the old traffic bridge into the river on graduation day,” Temperley says. “People would pull over their cars and yell at you for being reckless and dangerous. The song Graduation Day is the story about someone who stayed behind and somebody who chose to leave, and about how no matter how far you go – there is always this tether pulling you back.”

Fittingly complementing the real-world connection to Temperley’s own graduation day memories, the music video for  Graduation Day features Temperley’s hometown in Fremantle. Drumming up the small town vibes with genuine hits of nostalgia, the music video is as much a love letter to Temperley’s youth as it is a vivid gateway to tangible and universal reminiscence and small town life.

Founding the ARIA award-winning, four-times platinum band  Eskimo Joe  at the tender age of 19, Temperley   evolved from winning a band competition into a legacy-shaping musical powerhouse as the frontman, bass player and songwriter for the beloved Aussie group.

As a solo artist, Temperley   is now poised to release a brand new album this September,  Machines of Love & Grace , which shares its name not only with Temperley’s most recent single prior to Graduation Day , but also with the theory that humans are outliers on the planet – a virus upon it, putting hefty emphasis on love and empathy; ideals which don’t really exist in the animal kingdom. We are, in effect, machines of love and grace.

Fans will also be able to catch Temperley   live in action later this year on his freshly-announced multi-stop regional Australian tour.

Armed with brand new material as well as a look into some favourite songs  before  they were famous, these regional shows will be a beautiful celebration of Temperley’s personal and professional experiences over the past few years and beyond.

“I’m looking forward to going everywhere as it’s been a good 3 years since we’ve been able to tour the country. The shows will feature songs from my last two solo albums as well as a look at how some of the biggest Eskimo Joe songs sounded when I wrote them before they became the familiar radio hits everyone has come to know”.

For Victorians, you can see Kav Temperley at Golden Vine in Bendigo on Thursday, August 4; Our Friends Farm in Tallarook on Friday, August 5; and Lighthouse Theatre in Warrnambool on Saturday, August 6.

Machines Of Love And Grace  is set for release in September 2022. Tickets for the solo regional tour are on sale now via the website .

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Eskimo Joe frontman, 8 times ARIA award-winning Kav Temperley is off on a regional tour in support of his highly anticipated second solo release Machines of Love & Grace out September 2022, title track out now.

The tour will be Kav’s most ambitious solo endeavour yet, performing across the country armed with a bunch of new songs and a back catalogue full of radio hits.

His ethereal-yet-pounding new single firmly harnesses a sharp spotlight on his passion & penchant for songwriting that first endeared him so heavily in the Aussie music scene and beyond, boasting driving alt-rock flavours with moments of acoustic calm and lush, stripped-back beauty and Kav’s familiar, soothing vocals.

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INTERVIEW: ESKIMO JOE’S KAV TEMPERLEY Talks Nostalgia, Storytelling + Their Upcoming Acoustic Tour

Words by Tracey Moyle Music Maven

With a massive hit of nostalgia, Australian rock icons Eskimo Joe have released their first new music in five years with their reminiscent new track, The First Time.

Eskimo Joe led the charge in the resurgence of the Australian music scene of the ‘90s, becoming one of the nation’s most beloved bands . If you are over 40 and hold heart-swelling memories of the festivals of that time and the 2000s, you will have undoubtedly seen Eskimo Joe in their live festival glory. Their songs are like time capsules for many, holding memories of where you were, what you were doing, who you were dating, and when ‘that song’ was out on the radio waves.

This latest track is a nostalgic look back at those days, remembering all the first times. Not only is it a brilliant track, the band has also captured that quintessential Eskimo Joe sound and feeling, giving fans something that feels so familiar yet so excitingly new.

The band’s solid friendship and love of their music have kept them alive even though there were a few ‘gap years’ in their release schedule, with each of them having their own individual projects to work on.

Tracey Moyle had a good chat with lead vocalist/guitarist Kav Temperley about the inspiration behind the new track, their upcoming and incredibly unique acoustic national tour, playing to their fans at small local shows and much more.

Congratulations on the new single, Th e First Time. You’ve brought fans a track that is quintessential Eskimo Joe. After all these years, you haven’t lost who you are with your unique signature sound, but you have kept that sound fresh and new.  What do you think is the secret that the band has embraced to not lose who you are after so many years of making music?

Well, I think the secret is that we had a bit of a sabbatical in between. We’ve been lucky enough to be a band for a few years now and for a long time we were in this two-year cycle where we’d write a record, we record a record, we’d tour that record. Then we got up to about 2013 and realised that we just needed a bit of a break from each other and from everything. So we went off and did some other projects and bits and pieces, and when we came back together, it was, funnily enough, during the whole covid thing. I don’t know why we decided that was a great time to start releasing music again, but we did.

The funny thing about that is that we did two songs over that peak covid time, but it was a weird one because we were writing and recording these songs in isolation a lot of the time without being in front of our crowds and fans. When we came back to it, we had this renewed sense of like, “oh, I feel great being in Eskimo Joe”, because we had all these other projects that we’ve started in the meantime that kept us satisfied.

With that curiosity to do all things musical, sometimes, when you’re in a band, you’re like, ‘but I want to turn this into a techno album’ and then someone else in the band is like, ‘we’re a rock’n’roll band were not doing that’, you know. So, it’s nice to be able to go from making your techno album and coming back and being Eskimo Joe.

When we came back everyone had this sense of gratitude to be in the band. We did two songs (Say Something, 99 Ways). It was great, but we weren’t playing in front of anyone, so we didn’t have any litmus of what works and what doesn’t work. And really the success and the story of most bands is that they hit the road, they start playing, every time they do a song, they’re like, ‘oh that worked’, you know. And then they’ll start to infuse that into whatever they write next because they get this direct response from their audience. So, fast forward to 2023, finally the world opened up again. Finally, it feels like we’re doing shows and people are coming out, and we finished the year off doing this great festival called Good Things.  We’re from that generation of bands who were lucky enough to play festivals like the Big Day Out, and you would have 30,000 people deep in front of you, and it was that feeling again. We were suddenly out on these big festival stages again with 30,000 people, and there was an electricity between us and the audience. We’d play a song, and they would sing it back to us and we’d be like, ‘Oh my God is amazing’.

So, we bottled that feeling and went into the studio, over the last week of December and then the first week of January and wrote and recorded The First Time and a lot of the feeling that went into it was that electricity of being in front of audiences.

The other two songs we released were great, but this felt like the most, like you said, quintessential Eskimo Joe moment. We were kind of getting back on form, or whatever you want to call it. But also, a lot of these shows we were playing were a lot about nostalgia. We were playing with a lot of bands who had been around for a few years, back in the days when we were signing people’s CDs and doing those kinds of things. So, we wrote this song, which was a combination of that feeling of electricity in front of a crowd, and also this idea of, what is nostalgia? Remember the first time you kissed someone, or fell in love, or smoked a cigarette, you know. You have this idea of looking back and imagining that it was great, but it was always a much more complex story than that, so that that was the story of the song.

The video you released and the new single is a retrospective look at your whole history as a band in a bit of a snapshot. How did it feel when you created that video? How did it feel seeing it all together for the first time? 

For us, it was a really lovely surprise, because we don’t really go back and watch old footage of ourselves or even listen to old records. Once we’ve made the album, we’re generally moving on to the next thing, so it was great to go back and see all these different versions of ourselves through the years and to remember it was like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s right, we did ‘that thing’. Oh, that’s right. We did ‘that’ thing’. You kind of forget the story, so that fit into the whole thing, which was lovely.  

It was even like that for me, I was thinking oh my God, I remember what was I doing then? And what festival is that? Was I there?

Yeah, there were moments there. There were some great festivals like Homebake; I think there’s a bit of footage from that. There’s some Aria’s stuff in there, some things behind the scenes, probably Big Day Out bits and pieces as well. All of these kind of festivals were such a big deal for us at the time and it was nice to look back with a sober head space .

Over the years, you’ve won ARIA’s, you’ve conquered triple j’s Hottest 100, you went platinum with Black Fingernails , you played some of the biggest festivals in the country. Do you feel like there’s still more to achieve with Eskimo Joe or have you found a different drive forward with the music you’re creating? Is it more just about touring and getting what’s in your heart out with your music and not so much looking for anything from it, apart from the love of it ?

I think that’s a really great question. When we were coming up and looking at albums like ‘Black Fingernails, Red Wine’ we were so ambitious in this idea that we wanted to conquer the world, we took it very, very seriously and were probably painful to be around at times. But going away and coming back, when we stepped away from Eskimo Joe, we felt like we were at the end of a wave we’d been riding. This wave of success or whatever you want to call it. When we stepped away in about 2013, it felt like the right time just to have a bit of a break. Like I said before, we needed a bit of a break from each other, but we also were just kind of like, well, let’s not stop being Eskimo Joe, but let’s just step away and let some other people fill that space for a while.

I don’t think we’ll sit down and make a whole record again in the near future because we have these other projects going on.

And now coming back, it’s not really about trying to ride this next wave or anything like that. We like going out and playing these festivals. We just seem to occupy this Eskimo Joes’-shaped hole in the Australian music industry and when we play shows we have kids who are 20 years old who were probably about four to five years old when Black Fingernails came out and were being pushed around in a supermarket trolley as Black Fingernails played over the woollies PA or whatever.

And then you’ve got people who are in their 60s and 70s who got into us when we first started. So, we have this amazing amount of and age range, who come to our shows and we have nothing but gratitude for these people who have taken our music into their lives.

As far as the motivation to do it, I don’t think we’ll sit down and make a whole record again in the near future because we have all these other projects going on. But we really love just coming together and working on a song and then putting that song out like we did with The First Time.  We’re going to probably try and put out another song before the years out, and we really do it just for the love of getting together and making music.  We’re still very ambitious about trying to make music that we think is great but we’re not trying to conquer the world, we’re just really making music for the people who love us. For those people who turn up to those shows who have loved us for years or finally seeing us for the first time because they just turned 18. We’re making music for those guys so that’s our motivation now.

You’re about to embark on a five-month, 22-show acoustic tour across Australia. You’re taking this show to regional cities, which is something that you’ve done a lot over the years. Can you tell us a little bit more about what inspired you to do an acoustic tour and what fans can expect from the shows?

I love doing acoustic theatre shows because I’m a chronic storyteller. My kids just roll their eyes and are like, Dad, stop. I love telling stories. The theatre shows, and acoustic shows are just a very different experience than doing a big rock’n’roll show. Rock’n’roll shows are like, you’re like a superhero, everything is big and you’re shouting “Come on, everyone!”. You do that whole thing. But then when you do acoustic shows, it’s just it’s a gentler experience and you bring people in and it’s a much more intimate thing. Then you tell the stories between the songs and that becomes part of the whole experience. I love that and we haven’t done a proper tour like that ever. I do a lot of them in my solo world, but I haven’t done it with Eskis.

We’ve been doing a couple of shows here and there when people ask us to, we call Buskamo Joe’, which is just us and two acoustic guitars. So, we will expand that show into something a bit more beautiful and special.

Like you said, it’s the chance to get into some of these regional centres people don’t usually get to. We’re going to places like Mt Isa, which is really out there. I don’t think we’ve ever been there before. So, I think some of those places would be great and I’m sure people will be excited to have a band in their town. We’re going to Carnarvon, some crazy regional places, which I think would be great.

But also, it’s like shifting gears. We just played heaps of shows in 2023, we played little pub shows, we played big festival shows and really just re-engaged with our fans. We spend a lot of time going into the suburbs where most of our fans live these days. Everyone’s got families, you know, no one can buy a ticket to the big day anymore and take a couple of days off. But if you play at a great venue down the road from their house, they’re so happy to come and see you. We spent a lot of time re-engaging with people, and I feel like this is an extension of that. It’s a different gear. If you’ve seen the rock’n’roll show, you get to come and see the songs you know, stripped back, a bit more intimate and have a bit more of that connection going.  I think it’s going to be really special I can’t wait.

Eskimo Joe has never been a band to focus solely on their own music. You have been active supporters of the local music scene and up-and -coming younger musicians, mentoring bands, and artists for many years.

We had a glorified back shed for a long time where we recorded all of our Eskimo Joe stuff and we started recording other bands which it started in 2004, bands like Little Birdie and End of Fashion and The Sleepy Jackson . We grew, out of this jam room because we had recording gear and everyone was hanging out helping each other with song writing, and it was just a really great moment. That progressed to the point where, in 2010, we built our own recording studio. We bought a warehouse, built the whole thing from the ground up, and we ran that for a couple of years until no one was willing to be a full-time studio person. Now we do most of our stuff out of the room that you see behind us, and I do all kinds of bits and pieces here. We do Eski’s here, I produce other people’s stuff,  sometimes school groups come through and I show them what a recording studio is. I do lots of mentoring, for up and coming artists and I guess as far as putting back into the same thing, it’s not really a conscious decision to do it.

We were really lucky to come up through the years when there were big budgets to make records. So we got to go into some of the best studios in the world and work with some of the best producers ever. We did albums with people like Gil Norton, who recorded ‘Colour And The Shape’ by the Foo Fighters and The Pixies stuff and another producer, Ed Buller . We learned so much from these people that it’s really nice to be in this environment in our hometown. So to have people who live locally come and work with us, and you know, we learned these skills from the masters and to be able to pass these on feels really good.

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GRADUATION DAY: Kav Temperley brings national tour to Newcastle

by Newcastle Live 5 July 2022, 1:32 pm

Eskimo Joe frontman, Kav Temperley will head to Newcastle in August as part of a national tour in support of his new single, Graduation Day .

With a brand new solo album coming in September, Kav says he will play the show at The Gal armed with some sneak peeks of the new release as well as a look into some fan favourites.

“The shows will feature songs from my last two solo albums as well as a look at how some of the biggest Eskimo Joe songs sounded when I wrote them before they became the familiar radio hits everyone has come to know,” Kav said.

Graduation Day , the first single from the forthcoming album Machines of Love & Grace features vocals from Little Birdy’s Katy Steele.

“Myself and Katy have been friends for many, many years,” Kav said.

“Katy did her first Little Birdy demos in the back shed of my old house while Eskimo Joe were writing our second album A Song Is A City.

“We almost asked Katy to join Eskies playing keyboards, but Little Birdy was such a great musical project that it would have been criminal if she didn’t get out there and become the musical goddess that we all new she was destined to become.

“After two years of such extreme isolation, it was an absolute pleasure to get in a room together and work on some new music. You never know if the magic is going to happen when you sit down to write a song with someone, but Graduation Day just felt right straight away.”

“Kav is such a great writer and musician and I’ve always had a tonne of respect for him,” Katy Steele said of the collaboration.

“This song showcases what a great writer he is so I am truly honoured to be on it! We’ve been hanging out a little recently working on stuff and Kav played me the song in the studio. I guess we share a slight affinity both being the ‘lead singers’ doing solo stuff and all the feelings, pressures and emotions that come with it. It’s been so nice sharing those feelings together, it’s made me feel less alone.”

Kav Temperley will play The Gal in Hamilton on Wednesday 10 August . The single Graduation Day is out now with the album Machines Of Love And Grace set for release in September 2022 .

Visit kavtemperley.com.au to find out more about the release and hit tickets.oztix.com.au to purchase tickets for the show in August.

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Kav Temperley: How ‘Machines of Love & Grace’ is Different to What I’ve Done Before

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Kav Temperley of Eskimo Joe has released his second solo album,  Machines of Love & Grace .  The album came together in Temperley’s Fremantle recording studio amid the covid pandemic. Border closures and social distancing measures made it a considerably more solitary affair than Temperley’s solo debut, 2018’s All Your Devotion .

Temperley was required to wear many different hats throughout the recording and production process, which influenced the nature of the songwriting. The record was also influenced by artists as diverse as Beck, HAIM, Pink Floyd and Oliver Tree. Here, Temperley tells the story of  Machines of Love & Grace  and how it differs from his earlier work.

Kav Temperley – ‘Machines of Love & Grace’

Kav Temperley:  Machines of Love & Grace started life in the very first week of COVID. We had just returned from the US and a day later the whole entire world shut down. I also came down with a mystery virus but it was too early in the pandemic to test for COVID. So, while everyone went into lockdown, I began to isolate myself in my bedroom, only talking to my family through a crack in the bedroom window.

I was very lucky to have had a piano in my room, so as I started to feel a little better, I was able to sit down at the piano and start to document what was going on for myself and everyone around me. As we began to pinch ourselves that what was happening all over the world was real, I started work on what would become my second full-length solo album, Machines of Love & Grace.

Working in isolation

Kav:   The big difference between this album compared to anything else that I’ve done before was the isolation of the global lockdowns. Living in Fremantle, Western Australia, we’ve always felt cut off from the rest of the world. If you ever wanted to go on tour or work with anyone outside of Perth, it was four hours on a plane. I recorded my first solo album with producers John Castle and Pip Norman (AKA Count Bounce) in Melbourne, but in 2020, by necessity, I found myself working on my own in my little studio in Fremantle, taking on the roles of writer, musician, engineer and producer.

As the world started to open up again, I managed to bring in some extra local musicians to help with the playing – Elliot smith, on drums, Lee Jones on guitar, Steve Richter on percussion, Prita Grealy on backing vocals – as well some fantastic collaborations with local artists like Katy Steele, John Butler and Siobhan Cotchin. It’s an album created out of welcomed boundaries and physical limitations.

With my first solo album, I was really searching for who I was outside of Eskimo Joe. I dug deep into my influences of the early ’70s singer-songwriters like Neil Young and Van Morrison. However, with this album, there was less to time analyse what kind of record I was making because I was down in the trenches placing microphones and writing all the parts. Having to do a lot grunt work, I had to focus on one thing: “Does this sound good, or not? Great, then let’s move on.”

The result is a much more organic rock’n’roll album I definitely felt more at home in the skin of a solo artist.

Artists that inspired Machines of Love & Grace

Kav:   Sometimes you don’t know what you are writing about until you’ve written it. So, once I realised that I’d written some kind of post-apocalyptic true story, I sat down to write the final song for the album, which is the opening track, ‘Emergency in D minor’.

For this song, I had always wanted to write an epic opener just like ‘Shine on You Crazy Diamond’ by Pink Floyd, complete with an un-ironic smoky sax solo. So, I asked my friend, Erin Royer, who had played with us at the 2021 AFL Grand Final, to come in and lay down some sax. I even sent her an inspirational playlist called “Saxy good times” to get my idea across.

I also utilised the Synth Lab, which is a collective of people who’ve set up a studio upstairs from my own studio in Fremantle. They’ve set the whole thing up like the inside of a ’60s sci-fi movie. It has wall to wall synthesisers, drum machines and old signal generators. A few jazz cigarettes later and voila, the song was done.

Pink Floyd – ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’

My go-to drum sound is always somewhere between Neil Young’s Harvest and Beck’s Sea Change albums, so I was delighted to discover Lucy Dacus with her song ‘VBS’, a beautiful autobiographical tune with lyrics about falling in love with a girl at bible camp. The recording sounds both distorted and clean at the same time.

HAIM’s album Women in Music Pt. III  was such a lovely surprise and I was hugely inspired by the songwriting and production on the album, which came via Danielle Haim and her partner Ariel Rechtshaid. It’s hard to pick a favourite track because its such a strong album but have a listen to ‘The Steps’. I loved hearing drum machines and real drums seamlessly stitched together. You can hear this influence on the song ‘Graduation Day’.

HAIM – ‘The Steps’

Taylor Swift was never someone I was a big fan of. She was always way too shiny and mainstream for me, but at some point during the pandemic, while doing the dishes and playing it on repeat – much to the dismay of my family – I had to admit that I had become obsessed with the album Folklore.  I even bought the limited edition vinyl and made my whole family sit through T he Lond Pond Studio Sessions on Disney+.

The production and songwriting is absolutely stellar, both indie and mainstream, thanks to the combo of Taylor, Jack Antonoff and The National’s Aaron Dessner. There is not a bad song on the record, but ‘Cardigan’ is a triumph. I was inspired by the approach of this song on my song ‘Twin Flames’.

Oliver Tree with his song ‘Cash Machine’ took me back to the post grunge days of the early 2000s but still had a sound like it was coming from the future. I was inspired by the distorted acoustic sound, which I used on the song ‘Friendship Fires’.

Kav Temperley – ‘Friendship Fires’

• Kav Temperley’s new album  Machines of Love & Grace  is out now .

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Yesterday's Gone The Fleetwood Mac Legacy

Kav Temperley, Fanny Lumsden, Charlie Collins and Karen Lee Andrew To Perform Fleetwood Mac

by Paul Cashmere on May 13, 2024

After a sell-out perform for A Night At The Barracks in 2023, Yesterday’s Gone – The Fleetwood Mac Legacy, is heading out on extensive Australian dates for 2024.

Yesterday’s Gone – The Fleetwood Mac Legacy , features the voices of Kav Temperley of Eskimo Joe, Karen Lee-Andrews, Fanny Lumsden and Charlie Collins.

Any Fleetwood Mac show requires multiple voices as Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie also shared equal billing on lead vocals for the band.

The tribute show done well is also becoming more common for music fans as the original bands stop touring. Fleetwood Mac was officially retired following the passing of Christine McVie in 2022.

Lindsey Buckingham was fired from the band in 2018 but the band went out for one more tour with Lindsey replaced with two guitars, Neil Finn of Crowded House/Split Enz and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.

YESTERDAY’S GONE – 2024 TOUR DATES:

Sunday 25th August Hamer Hall, Melbourne VIC

Tuesday 27th August Canberra Theatre, Canberra ACT

Friday 30th August Crown Theatre, Perth

Saturday 31st August Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre, Bunbury WA

Tuesday 3rd September Albury Entertainment Centre, Albury

Thursday 5th September State Theatre, Sydney NSW

Friday 6th September, Anita’s Theatre, Thirroul NSW

Sunday 8th September Hindley Street Music Hall, Adelaide SA

Tuesday 10th September Kings Theatre, Caloundra QLD

Thursday 12th September HOTA, Gold Coast QLD

Friday 12th September The Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane QLD

Sunday 15th September Glasshouse, Port Macquarie NSW

Tuesday 17th September Civic Theatre, Newcastle NSW

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KAV TEMPERLEY Shares New Single And Video

‘ GRADUATION DAY’ Feat. K aty Steele + Announces Part 1 of Epic Australian Regional Tour

Two Aussie music legends collide in stirring fashion via Eskimo Joe frontman Kav Temperley ’s latest solo outing, with Kav teaming up with Little Birdy ’s very own Katy Steele for the charming new single Graduation Day . Releasing today alongside an equally blissful accompanying music video, Graduation Day is a sparkling addition to Kav ’s impending new solo album Machines of Love & Grace which is set for release in September. And new music isn’t the only surprise for fans in 2022, with Kav also revealing part one of a huge regional Australian tour kicking off in Exmouth, before hitting Bendigo, Tallarook, Warrnambool, Newcastle, Gosford, Illawarra and Canberra.

Tickets are on sale now from www.kavtemperley.com.au .

Graduation Day kicks off with humid percussion and glistening melodics before dovetailing into a calm and creamy ode to small town love and Kav ’s very own real-life graduation day traditions growing up in Fremantle, Perth. Co-written by long-time friends Kav and Katy and recorded at Kav ’s studio in Fremantle and at Sundown Studios, Graduation Day also boasts Lee Jones and Sacha Seaboune on guitar and Elliot Smith on drums, culminating in a fresh and endearingly intimate ode to rites of passage and connectivity, as Kav explains, “ Growing up in Fremantle, it used to be a right of passage to jump off the old traffic bridge into the river on graduation day. People would pull over their cars and yell at you for being reckless and dangerous. The song Graduation Day is the story about someone who stayed behind and somebody who chose to leave, and about how no matter how far you go – there is always this tether pulling you back”.

Bringing together two of Australia’s most recognisable vocalists, Graduation Day not only helped Kav spark inspiration following two years of ongoing isolation; it also offered a chance for Kav and Katy to professionally reconnect years after their own intertwining formative musical moments, as Kav elaborates, “ Myself and Katy have been friends for many, many years. Katy did her first Little Birdy demos in the back shed of my old house while Eskimo Joe were writing our second album A Song Is A City. We almost asked Katy to join Eskies playing keyboards, but Little Birdy was such a great musical project that it would have been criminal if she didn’t get out there and become the musical goddess that we all new she was destined to become . After two years of such extreme isolation, it was an absolute pleasure to get in a room together and work on some new music. You never know if the magic is going to happen when you sit down to write a song with someone, but Graduation Day just felt right straight away ”. Echoing Kav ’s sentiments, Katy shares, “ Kav is such a great writer and musician and I’ve always had a tonne of respect for him. This song showcases what a great writer he is so I am truly honoured to be on it! We’ve been hanging out a little recently working on stuff and Kav played me the song in the studio. I guess we share a slight affinity both being the ‘lead singers’ doing solo stuff and all the feelings, pressures and emotions that come with it. It’s been so nice sharing those feelings together, it’s made me feel less alone”.

Fittingly complementing the real-world connection to Kav ’s own graduation day memories, the music video for Graduation Day features Kav ’s hometown in Fremantle, with Kav on directing and editing duties alongside Fremantle filmmakers Joseph London and Luna Laure. Drumming up the small town vibes with genuine hits of nostalgia, the music video is as much a love letter to Kav ’s youth as it is a vivid gateway to tangible and universal reminiscence and small town life, as Kav reveals, “The video for Graduation Day t ells the story of what it means to live in a small town. It’s a snapshot of Freo, with beautiful footage of the port town by Joseph London and performances shot by Luna Laure. Graduation Day is a look back at the sliding door moments of our lives where everything seemed hopeful and possible, and it features the old Fremantle traffic bridge that we used jump off as a right of passage on graduation day”.

Founding the ARIA award-winning, four-times platinum band Eskimo Joe at the tender age of 19, Kav evolved from winning a band competition into a legacy-shaping musicial powerhouse as the frontman, bass player and songwriter for the beloved Aussie group. With their breakout single Black Fingernails, Red Wine releasing in 2006, and subsequently spending 62 weeks in the Top 50, Kav went on to write and record seven studio albums with Eskimo Joe .

As a solo artist, Kav is now poised to release a brand new album this September, Machines of Love & Grace , which shares its name not only with Kav ’s most recent single prior to Graduation Day , but also with the theory that humans are outliers on the planet – a virus upon it, putting hefty emphasis on love and empathy; ideals which don’t really exist in the animal kingdom. We are, in effect, machines of love and grace.

Alongside Kav ’s extensive career fronting Eskimo Joe , he’s also a seasoned performer both onstage and onscreen, having toured nationally and internationally in Asia, America and Europe, while also continuing to blaze trails in the music industry as an expert and mentor in creativity and songwriting. And while the impending release of new solo material has already sparked excitement into the latter half of 2022, fans will also be able to catch Kav live in action later this year on his freshly-announced multi-stop regional Australian tour. Armed with brand new material as well as a look into some favourite songs before they were famous, these regional shows will be a beautiful celebration of Kav ’s personal and professional experiences over the past few years and beyond, as Kav enthuses, “ I’m looking forward to going everywhere as it’s been a good 3 years since we’ve been able to tour the country. The shows will feature songs from my last two solo albums as well as a look at how some of the biggest Eskimo Joe songs sounded when I wrote them before they became the familiar radio hits everyone has come to know ”.

An APRA, WAM and OceanFloor Music ambassador currently in his seventh year of running creative workshops, 2022 ultimately finds Kav creatively potent and primed to share incredible musical collaborations as well as intimate and reflective material, with Machines of Love & Grace set to offer a snapshot of and a springboard for collective storytelling, as Kav concludes, “ Machines of Love & Grace will be released in September this year and it features a whole bunch of fantastic collaborations, and documents the two and a half years of the pandemic.This will not be a list of what happened over the past two years but hopefully act as a mirror for everyone to get their own stories from.”

Graduation Day feat. Katy Steele is out Now.

Machines Of Love And Grace is set for release in September 2022.

Tickets to the Australian regional tour are onsale now from www.kavtemperley.com.au .

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KAV TEMPERLEY SOLO TOUR DATES

THURS 14 JULY | FROTH, EXMOUTH WA

Tickets are available from  https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/b0240a99-4015-4354-8f39-fe8f8141a8ed

THURS 4 AUG | GOLDEN VINE, BENDIGO VIC

Tickets are available from  https://events.humanitix.com/kav-temperley

FRI 5 AUG | OUR FRIENDS FARM, TALLAROOK VIC

Tickets are available from  https://events.humanitix.com/kav-temperley-eskimo-joe

SAT 6 AUG | LIGHTHOUSE THEATRE (STUDIO), WARRNAMBOOL VIC

Tickets are available from  https://www.lighthousetheatre.com.au/kav-temperley

WED 10 AUG | THE GAL, NEWCASTLE NSW

Tickets are available from  https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/50a59594-fb69-4dd9-a23a-d47dad0c41f4

THURS 11 AUG | DRIFTERS WHARF, GOSFORD NSW

Tickets are available from   https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/cb251378-f975-47aa-a4f3-e268d96d4112

FRI 12 AUG | ILLAWARRA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE, THE MUSIC LOUNGE, ILLAWARRA NSW

Tickets are available from  https://merrigong.com.au/shows/kav-temperley/

SAT 13 AUG | CANBERRA THEATRE CENTRE, THE STUDIO, CANBERRA ACT

Tickets are available from  https://tickets.canberratheatrecentre.com.au/event_dates/ctc_kav_temperley_22.aspx

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