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Its themes of youthful reflection and tongue- Deborah Conway is a significant and eloquent in-cheek irreverence, embodied in It’s Only The contributor to Australian music, singing songs that Beginning, Release Me & the bittersweet title track, chronicle the essential elements of life, love, loss, won her Best Female ARIA award that year. One of memory, the mundane and the spiritual. Restless Australia’s emblematic female singer-songwriter and confounding, her powerful voice and presence albums, String Of Pearls found an essential and has fascinated audiences for the past 30 years. A rare enduring place. female agitator in a time when the music industry was male dominated; Conway continues to be a role model The album release was accompanied by an extensive for young women and a mentor to emerging artists. national tour with band The Mothers Of Pearl in which Willy Zygier played guitar. This was the start of a highly From the moment her band, Do Re Mi released the successful songwriting and personal collaboration iconic Man Overboard, off their debut album Domestic for Conway & Zygier that has resulted so far in eight Harmony in 1985, Conway has always followed her own records and three children. path. The song was radically different to radio playlists, a rant on gender politics and without a chorus, yet it In 1993, Conway & Zygier produced their first sat at the top of the charts and introduced her as a album together, Bitch Epic, the title coming from compelling force. “random words, cut up and pulled from a hat”. From its distinctive cover, which saw Conway smeared In 1986, relocated to Europe, Do Re Mi wrote and with Nutella and little else, to its rich and complex recorded a second album, The Happiest Place in musicality, Bitch Epic pursued a singular path. Once Town. The single Adultery and album were well again radio was pushed unknowingly into adding received but by the end of ’88 the band had split and unusual textures and sounds to their programming; Conway remained in the UK to work on a variety of the 5/4 beat of Alive and Brilliant and the loping, projects. These included singing on The Iron Man by unique rhythm of Today I Am A Daisy both made their Pete Townsend, alongside Nina Simone and John Lee way onto the airwaves. Wanting to take music more Hooker; and acting and singing in Peter Greenaway’s respectfully at a time when most Australian acts were film Prospero’s Books, scored by Michael Nyman. playing pubs and beer barns, Conway & Zygier became Throughout this period Conway continued writing and producers, underwriting The Epic Theatre tour in in 1990 returned to Australia with an album’s worth of grand old theatres around the country. new material ready to record again. In 1995, inspired by their first child on the way, Conway Conway’s debut solo album String of Pearls, released 4 sharpairlines.com.au facebook.com/sharpairlines twitter.com/sharpairlines 5 and Zygier formed Ultrasound, a band with the much relationships with audiences in a digital age in a missed Paul Hester (Split Enz, Crowded House) very immediate and visceral way through home and Bill McDonald (Frente, Rebecca’s Empire). This performances called Summerware parties. It startled eponymous & experimental album featured hypnotic media who were used to the standard barrier between and cinematic instrumental soundscapes as well performer and audience and spawned an outbreak of as strange and otherworldly songs full of levity and home party concerts. menace. It was a radical step away from the pop world In 2005, inspired by their adventure of new ways but yet another 5/4 song, 3 Love, made its way onto of bringing music to people, Conway and Zygier radio. became producers again and launched the inaugural My Third Husband (1997) and Exquisite Stereo (2000) production of Broad. Broad combined female singer/ formed a diptych, two sides of the same coin, songwriters from very different genres of music on claustrophobic songs and harrowing tales told with stage together to contribute to each other’s music and grim humour. The former, written & recorded in explore, by way of conversation, their approach to their London musically explored electronica; the latter, craft. Introducing a number of wonderful emerging celebrated the full force of distorted electric guitars artists to Australian audiences, the series of Broad and drums and was recorded in Melbourne with the productions continued in ‘06, ‘07 & ‘08 and featured the rhythm section from Augie March. The title track incomparable talents of Katie Noonan, Ella Hooper, featured a duet with Neil Finn. These albums capped Clare Bowditch, Mia Dyson, Kate Miller Heidke, Sally off Conway & Zygier’s years of working primarily with Seltmann and the late great Ruby Hunter, to name but amplified instruments. a few. account of earliest female settlement of the colonies Willy Zygier – Dreaming Transportation; writing & recording with In 2001, Conway was cast in the title role of the theatre In May 2008, Conway, recognised as an innovator and Willy’s first recorded appearance was with his classical composer George Dreyfus; recording with piece, Always…Patsy Cline, and began a love affair with a generator of unique ways of presenting music to band Tootieville on the Cooking With George Mark Brisbane band George their version of Man Overboard. country, roots and Bluegrass music. To accompany the people, was offered the role of Artistic Director for Too compilation record, released by radio station But her career has always returned to the core production Conway & Zygier released PC The Songs Of the Queensland Music Festival. Conway is the first Triple J in 1985, though he had been spotted business of writing and performing her songs. Patsy Cline, an album of idiosyncratic versions of Patsy woman to direct this biennial state-wide celebration haunting Melbourne’s live music venues long before Cline songs, their theory being if you’re going to record of music which is the largest by land mass music In May 2010 Conway & Zygier launched their 9th studio that. Tootieville followed this up with an album classics you have a duty to make them your own. festival in the world. In July 2009 Conway’s QMF album Half Man Half Woman, recorded in Melbourne entitled Basic in 1990 that was The Age’s Green Guide Conway was a natural Cline, loved by audiences and staged 44 events in over 20 regions to an audience with producer James Black. album of the year. critics; she completely inhabited the role of the gifted of 140,000 across the state, including an opening He first appears in the Deborah Conway story country songstress who died far too young. event on Thursday Island with The Black Arm Band, It is another passionate and accomplished singer/ (officially) on the credits of the Release Me single as Kev Carmody’s Cannot Buy My Soul at Brisbane’s songwriter album that chronicles love in the middle 2002 saw the release of a Greatest Hits record, Only co-performer of the live version of Will You Miss Me Riverstage, Michael Nyman’s concert with William ages, life in the 21st century and the human condition The Bones.