Sally Ford & the Idiomatics: with writer Bill Garner

SALLY FORD AND THE IDIOMATICS

WITH SPECIAL GUEST WRITER, BILL GARNER

SAT 5 DEC 7.30pm

The Idiomatics are back at the Coolroom to take you on a groove-driven electro-acoustic adventure – blending their unique brand of 'melantronica' with a pedigree of latin, ska and funk with bands including Texicali Rose, the Melbourne Ska Orchestra, Dr Hernández, The Spaghetti Western Orchestra, Pachuco Playboys, Yothu Yindi, Skazz and the Black Sorrows.

Joining the Idiomatics is Bill Garner who will be reading from a recent collection of writings from his St Kilda days, accompanied by a lush soundscape played live by the band. This will be a richly imagined musical and literary experience. Not to be missed!

BILL GARNER

Bill is a writer of plays, screenplays, history and Facebook posts. Being born in Bendigo and growing up in Ballarat developed a distinctly provincial personality. Now living in Maldon, he realises that while long thinking of himself as a radical urban communitarian he was also an unwitting pioneer of gentrification across Fitzroy, Carlton and St Kilda. (Maldon was already gentrified before he arrived.) At the interface of contrasting lifestyles, for more than forty years he and dog walked the streets of St Kilda, composing occasional paragraphs about his random encounters.

THE IDIOMATICS

Sally Ford vocals, flutes, sax

Patrick Cronin sequences, synth, valve trombone, whistling.

Michael Havir keyboards, electronic-fx

Alice Garner cello