Joel Byrne has spent the last 12 or so years travelling around Australia and the rest of the world singing and playing guitar in Australian Psych Rock band Wolf & Cub.
I wouldn’t say this is a collection of my favourite songs but more a musical travel diary because, for me, each track (most of them) is significant for sparking a memory or a feeling from a past adventure.
Whether it be being transported back to one of those listening stations in a Tower Record Store in Tokyo where I heard a recently released Vincent Gallo album; the tiny venue in Nottingham where I heard The Falls ‘Dr Buck’s Letter’ being played very very loudly through a PA; or on the countless drives across the Hay Plain listening to the opening track to Funkadelic’s ‘Maggot Brain’ when I hear some of these tracks I get reminded, in a weird way, of a distinct moment from a past adventure. It is very true that Adventure and music really do go hand in hand and for me, now I as I try to recall those moments; it’s almost like not being able to remember one without the other.
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