Byron Bay Writers Festival

Posted by hughesy July 31, 2011

Byron Bay Writers Festival

PERFORMANCE: THEN, AND THEN

Performance Tent 4.15pm - 5.15pm (Friday, August 5)

Geoffrey Datson and Annette Hughes perform works from Datson’s book, Then, and Then

EVENT: PAUL KELLY AND THE FESTIVAL FRIENDS (SOLD OUT)

Hotel Great Northern, 35 Jonson St, Byron Bay 9pm (Saturday, August 6)

A musical Festival treat including: Paul Kelly, Ange Takats, Sean Sennett, Teresa Bell, Geoffrey Datson and Annette Hughes

ON THE ROAD

As we hurtle through space there is plenty of time for contemplation and to try to make sense of the journey that has led us to this point.

Unlike the trajectory of the journey we are taking, all planned out and set out with a map to follow, a life's journey accretes - and becomes a map you can't refold. You don't know where you were heading until you arrive.

So, this journey, as we play our songs over and over again, I am going to try to write down all the emotional meaning they carry and to tell the story of the five years it took to make the record.

It's a story, of joy, near death, a divorce, ecstatic moments, my mother's dementia, a heatwave, threats of violence, tears, reconciliation, silence, and a suicide all wind up in the final mix.

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ON THE RECORD