yes, i suppose so. but it was a youth theatre company that i felt very familiar with, and i pretty quickly decided i could do it. just by sitting down and trying. and i had written a lot of songs by then and i had written, you know, i had gone through this phase in my teens, like a good teenager, of musicalising ts eliot poems. like, i ve got this song that i can still hear that goes: # let us go, then, you and i # when the evening is spread out against the sky # like a patient, etherised upon a table.# yeah, i know it. right? we all know that. and by the way, i ve gone back to eliot in my later years and it stands up, man. it s brilliant. it s beautiful stuff. anyway, i even had, i did a bit of wasteland as well. # this is the way the world ends.# like, i was using this grunge stuff coming out of seattle and, like, putting it to ts eliot lyrics. so i was already writing music to pre existing lyrics and this love s labour s lost thing was built of the script, which has a few songs in i
of adjunct theatre company called midnight youth theatre company. and through high school, i always did the school plays. i never got the lead roles, but i kind of was into it. butjenny davis, who remains a very good friend of mine, who s a theatre maker from perth of my parents generation, sort of wrote me a note one day and said, i m doing this version of love s labour s lost that has songs in it that someone else had written some years before. but we think the songs need to be rewritten, would you write the songs for it? we have a $500 budget, lovejenny. and it was on a card. you know, this is 1994. and i sort of thought, i don t know if i can do that, but if she s asking me to, she must think i can. but you were, what, 16? no, it was the year i turned 18. so i was 17 and a half. still quite an ambitious commission to take on. yes, i suppose so. but it was a youth theatre company that i felt very familiar with, and i pretty quickly decided i could do it.
still quite an ambitious commission to take on. yes, i suppose so. but it was a youth theatre company that i felt very familiar with, and i pretty quickly decided i could do it. just by sitting down and trying. and i had written a lot of songs by then and i had written, you know, i had gone through this phase in my teens, like a good teenager, of musicalising ts eliot poems. like, i ve got this song that i can still hear that goes: # let us go, then, you and i # when the evening is spread out against the sky # like a patient, etherised upon a table.# yeah, i know it. right? we all know that. and by the way, i ve gone back to eliot in my later years and it stands up, man. it s brilliant. it s beautiful stuff. anyway, i even had, i did a bit of wasteland as well. # this is the way the world ends.# like, i was using this grunge stuff coming out of seattle and, like, putting it to ts eliot lyrics. so i was already writing music to pre existing lyrics and this love s labour s lost thing was
no, it was the year i turned 18. so i was 17 and a half. still quite an ambitious commission to take on. yes, i suppose so. but it was a youth theatre company that i felt very familiar with, and i pretty quickly decided i could do it. and just by sitting down and trying, and i had written a lot of songs by then and i had written, you know, i had gone through this phase in my teens, like a good teenager, of musicalising ts eliot poems. like, i ve got this song that i can still hear that goes: # let us go, then, you and i # when the evening is spread out against the sky # like a patient, etherised upon a table.# yeah, i know it. right? we all know that. and by the way, i ve gone back to eliot in my later years and it stands up, man. it s brilliant. it s beautiful stuff. anyway, i even had, i did a bit of wasteland as well. # this is the way the world ends.# like, i was using this grunge stuff coming out of seattle and, like, putting it to ts eliot lyrics. so i was already writing music t
i went to a school that had a drama department. in fact, it had a sort of adjunct theatre company called midnight youth theatre company. and through high school, i always did the school plays. i never got the lead roles, but i kind of was into it. butjenny davis, who remains a very good friend of mine, who s a theatre maker from perth of my parents generation, sort of wrote me a note one day and said, i m doing this version of love s labour s lost that has songs in it that someone else had written some years before. but we think the songs need to be rewritten, would you write the songs for it? we have a $500 budget, lovejenny. and it was on a card. you know, this is 1994. and i sort of thought, i don t know if i can do that, but if she s asking me to, she must think i can. but you were, what, 16? no, it was the year i turned 18. so i was 17 and a half. still quite an ambitious commission to take on. yes, i suppose so. but it was a youth theatre company