By Hollie Harris
Byron Bay singer-songwriter and one of Australia’s most loved musicians, Pete Murray is heading our way on his Aussie tour as he stops off at Villa Noosa for one amazing performance.
With the release of his new single, Take Me Down, also comes the release of his sixth studio album, Camacho on 2 June. With over one million album sales to his name, the quiet achiever of Australian music will showcase new tracks and old favourites on an epic 33-date national Camacho Tour that will kick-start in Lismore on 12 July and finish up in Darwin on 9 September!
“I’ll be taking the full band on the road and heading to a stack of places I haven’t been to in a while. I’m also really excited about playing the new music for the first time and cannot wait to get out there and see the crowd’s reaction!” Pete said.
The Australian singer-songwriter whose first three full-length albums reached number one on the Australian music charts, has been nominated several times at the ARIAs and has had several songs reach the top 40 in Australia. His first LP, Feeler, reached number one a few months after its mid-2003 release, and his follow-up record, See The Sun reached a similar level of success, with all of the singles receiving widespread airplay. His third studio album, Summer At Eureka, was released in May 2008. To date Pete Murray has sold over one million records. Some of the greatest influences on his career are Nick Drake, Neil Young and Bob Dylan. “The records I love by people like Nick Drake, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, they are built to last. I wanted this to be an album like that, something you can pull out in 30 years and still hear the feeling in it, rather than something that’s dated by the musical fashions of the day,” he said.
Murray started to learn the guitar at age 22 and his ability soon improved with plenty of practice. Eventually, he worked up the courage to take his guitar to a barbecue singing songs by Neil Young and Crowded House. However, his main interest was in pursuing a career in sports medicine and traveling.
Eventually, enough people told him that he had the talent to be successful in music and he started a musical career, playing small gigs around the country with flautist Col McIntyre, eventually putting a band together (including keyboard player Ben McCarthy, who works with him to this day). In 2002, he released an independent album The Game in Brisbane and moved to Melbourne to pursue a musical career. Murray signed a contract with Sony BMG Australia in early 2003.
Feeler was released on 21 July 2003 with the title track as the first single. Triple J radio started playing the track with the Nova FM and Triple M networks picking up the track. With this support, Feeler entered the ARIA top 50 album charts in 2003 and the rest, as they say, is history.
Catch Pete Murray in Noosa Thursday 13 July at Villa Noosa. This is an 18+ event and tickets can be purchased online at www.villanoosa.com.au to avoid dissapointment.
