http://www.east-of-eden.de/

So far the Europe trip has been lovely…it’s always worth the extra effort to travel around with the guitar.

I hope you are all well.

Rowley

With a little help from my friends… from Cowper on Vimeo.

jaymis kindly informed me today that the site was up for renewal as of today. this means that cowperband.com is now 1 year old! this is a pretty amazing thing for me. so much has happened over the past year that i thought it would be nice to note a couple of them:

- i’ve played a gig at one of my top 5 ‘all time want to play here’ places; and i did it with my best friend on stage with me.
- i’ve started an album
- i’ve started a stack of videos (and finished some of them…)
- i’ve met some amazing people and been lucky enough to work with several of them
- i’ve had my first ever australian tour, travelling around and playing in bookstores and being paid in books.

it’s been incredible! and the next year is going to be even more amazing; but before i get into that, i thought i’d post a video that jaymis filmed 5 months ago. i’ve been waiting for a good time to post it, and i think the birthday celebration is the time to do it, because it says so much – none of this could have happened without my friends!

thank you, and there’ll be cake soon enough.

(ps, this was shot on a very lovely camera so you should DEFINATELY click on the video and go to the HD version at vimeo.)

p.s., i thought that jumping straight into hard text might distract from the fact that it’s been a while between posts. i hope it worked…

‘busy’ seems to be the catchphrase at the moment which is great – touring, playing, side projects – it’s all happening somewhere in there i managed to finish a couple of books including “The Surgeon Of Crowthorne” by Simon Windchester; which was received from Beyond Q books in Canberra. in short, i really enjoyed this book. it’s a true story about the origins of the Oxford English Dictionary; and as dry as that may sound, it’s quite captivating. loved it.

there’s also been time to work on a couple of new videos – one truly brilliant video by Jaymis that will be added shortly; and the Ocean Grove/VIC video. however, i thought since i’m back on the road today it would be more apt to post the video below – a short insight-slash-laugh at myself to summarise the first 5,000km of the trip…

i hope you enjoy it as always, remember there’s plenty of music to download free on the ‘music’ link above. checkitout.

thanks, and i hope you’re enjoying your hot november week!

rowley

5000km (Cowper Avid Reader Tour) from Cowper on Vimeo.

internet connections mean the next video won’t be up until brisbane; so stay tuuuuuned

It’s a busy weekend ahead!

Friday 13th is my sister Zannie’s birthday and all of Geelong will know it when I play on Pulse radio 94.7FM tonight after 6pm

Then tomorrow is the Bookgrove show – hope to see you there!

1pm Sat 14th Nov – Bookgrove (with Cloudchaser 2 Book Launch! – 2/83 The Parade, Ocean Grove, VIC
Ph: + 61 3 5255 5973)

Tune in!

They don’t stream on the web, so I’m going to see if they’ll podcast the show for out-of-towners (like you, mum)…I’ll let you know!

I thought that seeing as though I’ll be disappearing into the wilderness for a few days I should work extra hard today to get the Canberra video finished and up as well. And by “work extra hard” I mean “Hire a pedal boat and pretend it is a gondola by singing to the locals”. Yay Enjoy. Thanks Beyond Q!

Cheer Up! (Avid Reader Tour – Recorded Live in Canberra) from Cowper on Vimeo.

Howard Hughes (Avid Reader Tour recorded live in Newcastle) from Cowper on Vimeo.