Last sunday, I set out on an epic adventure with my long-time collaborators Shaun Ferraloro (photographer of virtually every press shot you’ve ever seen of me) and John Aliaga (directed my ‘Til Death Do Us Part clip and shot the footage for my background visuals with me) to the sleepy WA wheatbelt town of Kelleberrin. If you’re not from Western Australia (or simply have no idea what I’m on about), it’s about three hours east from Perth. Australia being Australia, the geography is completely different out there. Huge cornfields, distant trees and shrivelled lakes. The town itself is basically a main street with a small patch of houses surrounding it. In the middle of the main street is this:

I don’t want to show you the inside yet, but inside this is a big, run down art deco theatre called Aurora. An amazing woman named Janelle Cugley runs the space, and we were lucky to be allowed to shoot in there. Especially at night, the building is the perfect setting for the person I become onstage as it basically looks the way the inside of my head must look.

We did 25 shots, plus a music video over 14 hours. It was a long, long shoot, starting at 2:30 in the afternoon and going laaaaaate. This is me just after 4:30, after shooting what I think will be the cover shot:

At this point, this was as far as I could open my eyes.

I can’t wait to share these shots with you and the film clip we shot… and THE ALBUM THAT THEY’RE FOR!!! All of these things are going to be coming out incredibly soon. I don’t know about you, but that makes me very excited.

Back to Aurora, I’m hoping to do some work out there next year, it’s an amazing space that’s perfect for me to work in. And, without being a tool about it, being out there sparked a whole different set of musical ideas that I’d like to explore. Not that I’m short on them at the moment, I’ve got songs for about five different album ideas spewing out of my brain. I don’t think it’ll be long until I’m making LP #3…