Bicycle Music Festival in Oz?

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Permalink Reply by RobE on May 12, 2009 at 2:08pm

lol, I dont have any hair to stick flowers in, but I do have a few callouses on my fretting fingers that tell me that Muddy Waters, Yngwe, BB, Jimmy, Josephine Baker et al can all add to our enjoyment of life, they did it to a rythmn of life that moved you ...
Bike riding is the same, to combine both in a Bicycle Music festival and other ongoing music immersion projects and habits in our current stress driven lives thanks to big business, politics and modern greed and selfishness lets us approach that (ugly quagmire) and answer it with a freshness that the music of the past can deliver. YarraBUg music offerings are one positive way to go about living your moments... get with it, ride, play and immerse in music and be a vital part(y) of the solution ...

:) well that's my one bobs thought on it:)... time to go play some Leonard Cohen..... " they say there was a secret chord that......mmmm mmmmmm dada dada mmmmdddada " :)

One day I will be concert ready..hah... in the meantime the riding and musical journey is the destination...

sounds like an MC ensemble is developing... anyone play the wabble board, a saxophone or a tin whistle ?...anyone... ?

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Permalink Reply by Kristin Rule on May 12, 2009 at 3:47pm

"Hallelujah"!! I play that one as well, but I don't classify it as a Pub Survival Piece.....someone once described it to me as 'music to slit your wrists to', not a comment that I have much respect for ofcourse. Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley....they Rock!

An MC ensemble, good idea..... Vocals and Mandolin can be provided by Andy from Mechanarchy (I'll dob him in), RobE on guitar and RobK on piano accordian.... (I do occasionally play the sax). Anybody else?

I think it will take some prodding to get these closet bike riding musos to own up.

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Permalink Reply by ChrisS on May 12, 2009 at 3:58pm

The spoons, although wait a few months until I've re-taught myself guitar.

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Permalink Reply by andrew stretton on May 12, 2009 at 7:59pm

"One day I will be concert ready..hah... in the meantime the riding and musical journey is the destination..."

Ah Rob, couldn't agree more! The mandolin and the voice don't get much of a workout, but when they do, the buzz of living in the moment is beyond words. Riding my bike is no different, I'll never be professional, but hey, I simply can't get much closer to being in the here and now. Well, there are perhaps a few other things............

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Permalink Reply by RobE on May 12, 2009 at 8:04pm

.... like chocolate and red wine :)...

yep its all good !

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Permalink Reply by andrew stretton on May 12, 2009 at 8:41pm

Rob, you have an uncanny ability to read my mind!

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Permalink Reply by Kristin Rule on May 13, 2009 at 7:56am

Ok, it's time to get serious (I'm a classically trained cellist so I'm qualified to BE serious, it's just that I've forgotten how)!

If you're reading this discussion and you LIKE music (most people I assume?) please join the 'BICYCLE MUSIC FESTIVAL' group here on Melbourne Cyclist as a show of support for the idea.

A Bicycle Music Festival is a place where all styles of music are welcome, along with great food, wine, beer... and chocolate. A happy happy place where the professional and amateur musicians along with an appreciative audience join forces to celebrate the bicycle as an alternative and viable form of transport. The only 'Rule', apart from myself, is....No Bicycle, No Entry.

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Permalink Reply by trundlebug on May 13, 2009 at 11:45am

Curses! The mandolin spot was bound to get snapped up as being the most portable I suppose. I can do melodion? I suppose if it's possible for someone to lump cello about, I could do guitar, or banjo, or (god help us) a smaller, more bulletproof organ.

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Permalink Reply by Kristin Rule on May 13, 2009 at 9:43pm

Only thing better than a Mandolin is two Mandolins! :-)

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Permalink Reply by Shaun Murray on May 18, 2009 at 10:13pm

Hi all, I'm currently in the process of restoring this beast. I'm going to try & give it an outing on the National Climate Emergency Rally, with the idea being to get some funky ensemble on it. If possible, I might also try & put in an appearance at Critical Mass on Friday May 29. Anyone interested, please give me an email: westsax@westnet.com.au.

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Permalink Reply by ChrisS on May 21, 2009 at 1:28am

Whoah that is one velo beast. Is it from a performance troupe/circus?

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Permalink Reply by ChrisS on June 1, 2009 at 11:44pm

Hi Shaun,

You made a hellva impression at CM, there's about 60+ photos of the beast on stalkbook.

Well done!

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