Deborah Conway: Weblog

Put A Fucking 12 String On It
RIP Warren Zevon, Johnny Cash, Robert Palmer, Slim Dusty and now Elliot Smith, 34, found dead in his Los Angeles home yesterday, apparently from a self-inflicted fatal stab wound to the chest. He made some fantastic records but I was...

Pizza
Eddie and Jo are not car salesmen. This was my first assumption, having met them on the first of 2 nights of this shindig we were hired to play at, to launch a luxury car. No, Eddie and Jo, who...

Wednesday October 15th 2003
As I write this I can hear from the other room the deep mellow twang of a double bass played by Shannon Birchall - moonlighting with me, his real gig is with the John Butler Trio. A fine player with...

Friday October 10th 2003
I'm back and I'm recording. Outside the sky is blue but I know the wind is cold and the temperature is closer to 10 than 20. We've been here at this as yet undiclosable location, since Monday when we loaded...

Saturday December 8th 2001
And my excuse for not doing this more often? Hopeless, truly hopeless, but I blame the computer. I know, the good workman never blames his tools, but I always thought that was bullshit, how can you make a good sushi...

Thursday October 18th 2001
My lovely dresser has left to do another show with this company, "Oh What A Night" otherwise known in certain circles as Oh What A Nightmare. Anyway he's gone with a big send off, a BBQ and party that apparently...

Thursday October 11th 2001
Patsy's in Brisbane, at the Playhouse Theatre. We opened last week to more rapturous reviews and packed houses. This is the longest season so far, we're here for 5 weeks; it seems a bit excessive to me but I guess...

Sunday September 9th 2001
I’ve been in Adelaide all week playing across the road at Her Majesty’s. It’s an old theatre which promises some thrillingly ornamental proscenium arch from the outside but once inside could be best described as serviceable. I think it was...

Thursday August 23rd 2001
Man I’m sick of being sick, the drawbacks of living with small but highly efficient germ collectors is that even if you dodge 90% of what’s cooking in their viral soup kitchen you just can’t elude that last 10%. I...

Monday 20th August 2001
Gosh its been a long time since I sat down and blogged. There is a simple explanation for that. I was in Melbourne. Ah yes you may recall that heady missive I tapped out after the first preview and...

Thursday 19th July 2001
We previewed tonight at the State Theatre in Melbourne and it was huge. Packed to the rafters with happy punters, feels real good to be home too. They were a perfectly irreverent audience, unafraid to call out in the...

15th July 2001
We have migrated north to Newcastle. Canberra was excellent for sliding into the routine, though I’m still a bit confused about when to eat, the old dilemma of eating too early, then coming off stage ravenous and going to bed...

15th July 2001
I should have posted days ago, God knows I tried, really I did, but the server was asking for numbers that I simply didn’t have and frankly couldn’t be fagged getting hold of so I’ve had to leave you on...

Friday July 6th 2001
A grey wintry day in our nations capitol but in my world the light is blinding. Dear readers I didn’t forget all my words, fall over and show my underwear; we opened last night and it was WONDERFUL. The audience...

Thursday 5th July 2001
Good morning everyone, it's another fine day in our nations capitol, blue sky, dew still white on the grass outside my window, long early shadows and just a few heavily dressed people going about their business. I know I'm digressing...

Tuesday July 3rd 2001
Howdy everybody! I sure am happy to be with y'all and blogging at last; big thanks to my tremendous technical team here for getting me this far. And so begins the adventures of Deborah the thespian, Patsy the singin' cowgirl...