From his first foray as Punk\u2019s only-known clarinetist in Canberra band The Slammers, through a 40-year career co-fronting the Gadflys, to his off-beat incarnation as The Great Muldavio in Kabaret Noir outfit Mikelangelo & the Black Sea Gentlemen, Philip Moriarty has been, let us say, a little out of step with the mainstream.<\/p>\n
Phil\u2019s dad played clarinet in a band called Clean Living Clive\u2019s Good Time Palace Orchestra. He had a record of Benny Goodman performing \u201cSing, Sing, Sing\u201d at Carnegie Hall, with Gene Krupa\u2019s drums pounding away like a runaway freight train. Moriarty cites this as a foundational part of his musical education. Also, tambourines, 1960s Motown, T-Rex and Bob Dylan.<\/p>\n
A three-year stint on TV show Good News Week boosted the Gadflys\u2019 stocks, with the band playing an original song every week as well as collaborating with the likes of Neil Finn, Glen Tilbrook, Steve Harley, Colin Hay, Rich Hall and Paul Mac. Six albums with the Gadflys, five with the Black Sea Gentlemen, a solo album and innumerable tours in Australia and overseas followed, until he finally made his way to a very pretty part of south-eastern NSW called Candelo.<\/p>\n
Forming Wrack & Ruin in 2016, Moriarty\u2019s songwriting has progressed in terms of ambition, observational clarity and scope, delivering satisfyingly on the Gadflys\u2019 rootsy eclecticism. These days you might find him at Tathra pub, singing about how to make pumpkin risotto, or leading the band through some modern takes on old-time dance steps like cha-cha, rhumba and tango, or say covering a Bob Dylan song in the style of Eddy Cochran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From his first foray as Punk\u2019s only-known clarinetist in Canberra band The Slammers, through a 40-year career co-fronting the Gadflys, to his off-beat incarnation as The Great Muldavio in Kabaret Noir outfit Mikelangelo & the Black Sea Gentlemen, Philip Moriarty has been, let us say, a little out of step with the mainstream.<\/p>\n
Phil\u2019s dad played clarinet in a band called Clean Living Clive\u2019s Good Time Palace Orchestra. He had a record of Benny Goodman performing \u201cSing, Sing, Sing\u201d at Carnegie Hall, with Gene Krupa\u2019s drums pounding away like a runaway freight train. Moriarty cites this as a foundational part […]<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-blank.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-313","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itchybrain.com.au\/wrackandruin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itchybrain.com.au\/wrackandruin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itchybrain.com.au\/wrackandruin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itchybrain.com.au\/wrackandruin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itchybrain.com.au\/wrackandruin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/itchybrain.com.au\/wrackandruin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/itchybrain.com.au\/wrackandruin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/313\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itchybrain.com.au\/wrackandruin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}