ABC
Shops and Centres, Collins Bookstores, The Country Music Store
in Brisbane, St Mary's Sound Centre in Sydney and a myriad of
other local suppliers have together been selling thousands of
copies of this CD in the last few weeks. Sony custom is now in
it's 20th pressing. John Nutting's Saturday Night Country (ABC
Nationally), Ian Macnamara's Australia All Over (ABC Nationally)
and The John Laws show 2UE are all featuring tracks from what
is fast becoming the audio CD world's equivalent to the Blair
Witch Project.
So
what is a Naked Poet?
'The
Naked Poets' are Marco Gliori, Murray Hartin, Shirley Friend,
Bobby Miller and Ray Essery and Singer /Songwriter Pat Drummond,
and is a Monty
Python-like mix of 5 Bush Poets and a Songwriter into a comedy
troupe of sorts. and has been a much loved part of The Australasian
Country Music Festival in Tamworth for some years now. 'The Naked Poets' album now seems set to
be one of the most remarkable andunexpected
success story in Shoestring Record's 20 year long career.
The
last minute idea at the 1997 Tamworth Festival to record 5 of
the sellout nights of the show on..... wait for it.... a Sony
mini discrecorder straight out
of a Mackie desk (with only a few extra audience mikes) has proved
to be one of the best "what if..." ideas ever.
The original concept was simply to give the performers a record
of the show which is, in the main, pretty organic and grows across
the 7 nights of the Festival. The total cost of the initial recording
process was a mere $30.00 but the outcome was so surprisingly
good that, by March the task of compiling and mastering a CD from
those mini discs for public release had begun.
"What
no one expected was the public response in the wake
of the CD's release at The Gympie Muster in August or the 'runs'
on the shops wherever The Poets performed interviews
on air." says Pat Drummond. "Since there were
six of us, all in different parts of the country,
the exposure was just about national. Follow-up sales from
sold albums, the what I call the "Hey, have you heard this!?"
effect began a 'snowball' effect and Sony Custom is now
in it's 20th reprint.
"
What's
Getting Airplay? The main
tracks that are receiving airplay are-:
From NP 1 '...liev'
'Turbulence' Murray
Hartin's amazing poem about the ringer riding his swag in
the airplane as heard onAlan
Jones, John Laws, John
Nutting's Saturday Night Country and many More
"The Mr. Whippy Ripoff" Marco Gliori's Summer Nightmare! and Live versions of Pat Drummond's 'The Toilet Paper Linedance'
and 'The Spider In The Car Song'
From NP 2 'Newdirections'
' Blurbulence' The
very Australian Roasting of Murray for his temerity in having
a hit!
" The Mammogramm"
Shirley's side splitting account of the lady who has an appointment
on the mobile Mammogram Bus but boards the Football Charter instead
with all the predictable Chaos.
From NP 3 Butt seriously
"Are You Talking
To Me/" "Dr Death" and Pat snd Murray's hilarious
song" If I die before Keith Richards I'll be Pissd off to
The Max!"
and from NP 4
Marco tribute to
Slim Dudty 'You down us Proud'; Ray's "The Dungarooba Dance"
and Murray's 'Wave of Disbelief' and 'The Hog Whisperer'
What
Do They Look Like?....Well, it's not pretty!!!!
