Coming to you live and direct from the PBC, it’s The Too Easy Band with extra-special guest Bernie Hayes!
THE TOO EASY BAND
The Too Easy Band is a combination of some long-serving Sydney music stalwarts who really should know better. They play gorgeous, country-flecked, acoustic and occasionally caustic songs of heartbreak, remorse and regret.
Loosely based around the singular songwriting talents of Bow Campbell (Front End Loader / Dead Marines), the tunes get a good seeing-to by Ben Nightingale on stunt guitar (Psyclone Smyle / Clouds / Don Walker / Sleepy Jackson / The Ride Ons), Elmo Reed on upright bass (Gadflys / King Curly), and Anthony “AJ” Johnsen (Mess Hall, The Aerial Maps) on drums.
The lyrical landscape is confessional, world-weary and wry. The musical vibe is dusty, dark and sweet - well worn tunes straight from a comfortably dilapidated back porch. If you need a label, nihilbilly might do. Catnip for those who know the sad songs are always the best songs.
BERNIE HAYES
With four beloved solo albums and an assortment of musical collaborations behind him, Bernie Hayes has been playing, writing and singing so long that it’s sometimes not clear to him why he does it. He suspects it’s obsessive and self-indulgent. He knows only that when the song is good and singing the melody gives you a thrill, when the truth in the lyric chills your veins, when you are lost in the roll of the rhythm, then you have stumbled upon a small reward for your time spent. To be able to do it in extremely talented company is altogether the best possible outcome.
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The Petersham Bowling Club acknowledge the Gadigal of the Eora Nation as the traditional custodians of the land on which this show takes place and pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and emerging and extend those respects to the First Nations peoples of NSW and beyond.