Our new show Songs from the Book of Life, is a theatre piece which explores our four-decade-long musical careers, told through eight scenes and eight songs, based on Deborah’s memoir Book of Life to be released by Allen and Unwin on Tuesday 3 October.
Reflecting on our story of youth, rebellion, falling in love, aging, money and music, told with unflinching honesty, humour and revelation, it reveals the gritty details of an iconic woman (that's me!) who rocked the Australian music industry.
Featuring original music and theatrical storytelling and directed by Michael Kantor,
choreographed by Stephanie Lake, with set design by Chloe Greaves and video design by Nick Roux.
The Melbourne season is from October 4-7 at the Fairfax Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne. Tickets available here:
https://www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/2023/contemporary-music/songs-from-the-book-of-life?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=deborahconway23&utm_content=d&wsocials
Brisbane Festival September 17, tickets here: https://www.brisbanefestival.com.au/whats-on/2023/songs-from-the-book-of-life
HOTA on the Gold Coast October 21, tickets here: https://hota.com.au/whats-on/live/gigs/songs-from-the-book-of-life
Please stay tuned for further dates in Sydney to be announced
Happy New Year to the faithful & the unfaithful, to the movers & the shakers, the sad & lonely, to those who get it done & those who want it done. May you appreciate this is all a gift that one day is taken away and passed on like a baton in a relay that you wish could be held onto just a little bit longer. xx
From 1999 a rarity called Happy New Year. By the time New Year rolled around in 1999/2000 we were in hospital with a one day old baby girl, our third. We briefly wished each other a happy one and then went back to our dreaming.
From Paul Kelly’s self-described ‘mongrel memoir’ ‘How To Make Gravy’ pg 139-140
"Everybody Wants To Touch Me’ is sometimes read as a riff on celebrity. That seems to be Sydney cabaret singer Paul Capsis’s take on it on his album of the same name. Medusa-haired Deborah Conway, Melbourne singer-songwriter and mother of three, knows a little about celebrity and pregnancy both. She fronted a band called Do-Re-Mi in the eighties and had a big hit with a song called ‘Man Overboard’, featuring the memorable lines ‘Your pubic hairs on my pillow, your stubble rings the sink.’ Her shapely posterior was also famous, full-framed and proudly bare on big Bluegrass Jeans billboards nationwide, with the tagline ‘Get yours into Bluegrass’.
Do-Re-Mi functioned as a collective - a shaky construct in pop music at the best of times - and used language such as ‘ideologically unsound’ (the predecessor of ‘politically incorrect’) in their band meetings. Deborah, with her ...
Antarctica, destination of majesty, of mystery, of dreamlike otherworldliness; the air so clear you could see the future. Our nights rocked by the seas, our days filled with light, colour, wildlife, adventure.
And no internet! For 11 whole days the world could not intrude.
Thanks @Chimu & @Intrepid
Back in Australia with almost enough days to recover from jet lag before the next stop - Israel.
