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News 3/8/2010

Howdy all!

This is just a quick update on some shows for the next six weeks, and as a side note, thanks to all who came to the Den and braved the coldest night of winter so far!!

Sundays at the Broken Hill in Victoria Park will continue through August, and it has become a great little evening to kick back, have a few quiet ones, and stock up on good musical vibes before the start of the week.

For those of you lucky enough to be heading north in the coming month, Mr Gaunt will be chasing the sun through August and September, with shows this week in Broome at the fabled Divers Tavern (3rd and 4th of August), home of crocodile jumping madness, and later rocking out at Gullivers Tavern (10th 11th September) in Kununurra, home of the still-to-be-caught-why-won't-this-fish-bite-my-line Barramundi that Nathan has been carrying on about on twitter.

What's going on with the new album, you ask? Well, all we can say is, we're waiting too. Sugar Rush City????? More like Sugar Rush hurry up!!! Those signed up to the mailing list will be notified of a forthcoming single due shortly, so sign up for the gossip!

Stay safe and musical, Webby

Born in Darwin, in the Northern Territory of Australia, shortly after Cyclone Tracy destroyed most of the town, you could say Nathan Gaunt was conceived in the eye of the storm.

Moving to Alice Springs with his parents, near Ayers Rock, Nathan began his musical career listening to long playing records from his parents collection. Thus, his younger days were spent chilling to Anne Murray, The Rolling Stones, Sesame Street, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, and most importantly, old jazz, blues and country.

After then moving through New Zealand and Asia, finally settling in Perth Western Australia, he bought a beat up old Stratocaster copy at seventeen and began composing straight away, after yrears of "just listening".

Teaching himself to play various other instruments along the way, (piano, dulcimer, lap steel, sitar, and anything else that his muse required), Nathan has since written ten albums, played with opera singers in Italy, punk bands in New York, puppet shows in India, toured both Europe and America several times over, and played many festivals throughout Australia.

He has also written production music for various projects such as film, t.v, and catwalk shows for New York fashion week, and learnt the art of recording from engineering/producer luminaries such as Jeremy Allom (Massive Attack, Pretenders), Anthony Cormican (Birds of Tokyo, Amy Pearson) and Matt Hyde (No Doubt, Slayer, Regina Spector).

He's bagged a slew of awards including eleven Western Australian Music Awards for best Vocalist, Guitarist, Instrumentalist, and Blues/Roots music, and a MICA for up and coming. Adding to that, he has also supported an extremely diverse array of acclaimed musicians such as Carole King , Michael Franti, Shawn Colvin, Robben Ford, The Tea Party, Gomez, Art Garfunkle, New Buffalo, Lucy Kaplanski and Joe Satriani. Eclectic, to say the least.

Always challenging himself, every album braver and different from the last.... touch magic, pass it on!


	Fade Away, My Sweet Horizon, is a retrospective of nine years of Nathan Gaunt musical awesomeness. Great for newbies and dabblers.Click here to get it! Peace out.