His fifth long player is a dark, sprawling epic set in the goldfields of Central Victoria, combining adventurous piano boogie, widescreen electric guitar happenings, traditional Irish instruments and Dan’s patented macro/micro lyrical adventures. The first single Burn Up with the Trees is currently flaming up the airwaves across the country.
The album will be played in full with Dan’s Melbourne based super group Regional Crisis, featuring Dan Luscombe (Drones, Courtney Barnett, Amyl and the Sniffers), Gus Agars (Marlon Williams, Dark Horses, Tex, Don and Charlie) and Ben Woolley (Marlon Williams) and a stellar cast of guest musicians including Tom Lyngcoln (Harmony, Nation Blue) Amanda Roff (Harmony, Time for Dreams) and legendary saxophonist Julien Wilson to provide the audience with a sonic immersive and golden experience!
“The mighty Dan Kelly’s magical 5th album, GOLDFEELS is yet another gargantuan lesson in artful yet instantly appealing album making. Kelly covers new ground on this largely piano-based offering (with distant echoes of Randy Newman and John Cale), telling musical stories about sex, death, grief, and bushfires - what more could you ask for?”
Peter Jesperson- Replacements Manager/Twin Tone Records Head
After the performance of GOLDFEELS the band will perform a wide range of Dan Kelly’s old tunes from his wildly diverse back catalogue
ABOUT MEGHAN MAIKE & THE CACTUS FLOWERS :
In true country tradition, this Canadian singer-songwriter has found inspiration on the road - from Montreal to Mississippi, and now Melbourne. With a month-long tour of Spain in the rearview of 2024, and looking ahead to the Port Fairy Folk Festival in March 2025, Meghan Maike & The Cactus Flowers are reverberating with excited energy.
Born into folk and tuned to country, Maike’s influences (from the greats; Emmylou, Gram, Lucinda, to indie heroes; The Sadies, Black Heart Procession), spurred her to process the wending ways of the world through songwriting.
Seven years in Clarksdale, Mississippi found Maike with some time on her hands, and picking up the magnetic musical energy of the delta, she wrote her album, Dead Horse Creek - out now on Cheersquad Records and Tapes. It is a record of time and place, with a sonic tapestry echoing the surrounding vast landscape.
Maike will play as a trio with two buds of the Cactus Flowers for this special occasion at Archie's Creek: Mark McCartney on guitar (John Dowler’s Vanity Project, Joe Meares) and Paul Thomas on pedal steel (Huxton Creepers, Weddings Parties Anything).
