Friday 14 August 2009
J Walker (Machine Translations)
J Walker (Machine Translations)
Up Late
Friday 14 August 2009
Tickets are $20 and are available through qtix or phone 136 246 (booking fees apply).
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J. WALKER (Machine Translations) (8.30pm)
Melbourne musician J Walker, aka Machine Translations, uses a range of instruments and recording devices to create his unique guitar and pop sound. The most recent of Machine Translations’s seven albums since 1997 is Seven seven (2007, Recorder), and includes the singles ‘Need a miracle’ and ‘You'll change’, which feature on the soundtrack album for the ABC television show East of everything. In 2009, J Walker’s song ‘Oh Ma, the sea is rising’ was featured in the indie surf film Last hope.
Machine Translations has toured Australia several times, and supported international performers Lloyd Cole, Spoon, Will Oldham, Teenage Fanclub, Cat Power, Mogwai and Badly Drawn Boy, and Australian bands such as the Church and the Dirty Three.
As a full band, Machine Translations features a range of instruments including drums, keyboards, samples, bass and guitar, as well as Eastern instruments and tape loops. At The Met Up Late, J Walker will perform a solo set, covering a selection from Machine Translations’s extensive back catalogue in an intimate performance not to be missed.
'Walker is one of, if not the most, undiscovered writers in Australia.' (Benjamin Cooke, 'Machine Translations and the Audreys at Fly By Night Musician’s Club', Three Steps to Midnight, June 2008)
My American-Australian story talks (6pm & 7pm)
Marylou Badeaux
Marylou Badeaux has been the President of the Australian-American Association in Queensland (Brisbane) since 2004, working with government and private enterprise to strengthen the visibility of the American community in the Brisbane area. She is also the Vice-President of the Federal Australia-American Association. Marylou has a background in the music business, in the black and jazz music divisions of Warner Bros. Records in America for 25 years. In that role, she headed up product management, artist relations as well as marketing movie soundtrack projects by black artists, including all the promotions for the Prince tours, movies and albums. In 2001, Marylou became an Entertainment Consultant in Australia and has recently become a dual American/Australian citizen.
