Satchel Studio

30/06/2023

'Icon – Song 12' by Jen Lush is out today.
Stream it here: https://linktr.ee/JenLush or buy from Bandcamp.
Video out next week...

05/05/2023

View JenLush’s Linktree. Listen to their music on YouTube, Spotify here.

20/10/2022

27/09/2022

Playing with Fred Smith for his 'Sparrows of Kabul' show at McLaren Vale on Thurday and Prospect Town Hall on Friday.
Joining me are Jen Lush, Stevie Ped and Mark Seddon.

Fred Smith and band will be presenting this extraordinary song cycle on Australia’s involvement in Afghanistan culminating in the dramatic evacuation from Kabul in August 2021. Fred was there at the beginning in Uruzgan Province and returned at the end working from Kabul International Airport (KIA...

21/08/2022

KELLY MENHENNETT - Sunday 21 August
https://www.trybooking.com/CAYWD
JULES BOULT - Monday 22 August
https://www.trybooking.com/CBWCJ
Wonderful 2 days of music! - details below:
Kelly is a national award-winning singer songwriter of the soul/roots/alt-country variety, a captivating live performer and a voice once compared to a cross between Erma Franklin and Etta James. Her tireless national touring, both solo and with her band has seen her develop a reputation around the country as a unique and charismatic performer. Kelly has played a string of National and International Festivals including WOMADelaide and the Americana Festival in Nashville USA with Paul Kelly.
JULES BOULT is an award-winning blues singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and recording artist. Jules’ musical career has taken him across Australia, the United States and Europe. Since 2011 he has released five albums to critical acclaim and been awarded a coveted Australian Blues Music Award. Since 2014 Jules has toured the US annually, from New Orleans to New York, via the Mississippi delta, performing and recording with various musicians, including Kermit Ruffins, Terry Harmonica Bean, and The Oak Ridge Boys

02/05/2022

The new video, for the song 'Ben the Trees' from Jen Lush's album 'Let Loose the Beating Birds.'

Bend The Trees Words and music by Jen LushRecorded at Wizard Tone Studios by James BrownProduced, engineered and mixed by James BrownMastered by Michael Lync...

13/04/2022

Nick Vulture is launching his first full length solo album Dust Off The Sails, with the amazing Jen Lush!

13/04/2022

21/01/2022

'Crush' by Jen Lush.
https://youtu.be/jLUhIUQNxGs
From "Let Loose the Beating Birds"
Music and words by Jen Lush
Vocals: Jen Lush
Electric guitar: James Brown
Bass/synth note: Mark Seddon
Acoustic guitar/backing vocals: Sam Cagney
Drums/keys/metal box percussion: Paul Angas
Film concept and Production by Tobin Lush
Camera, edit, colour, title design by Tobin Lush

11 track album

21/01/2022

A new Trifle video featuring Jessica Luxx Music and Lisa Jane Music.

TRIFLE and Jessica Luxx perform 'Baby Stop Crying'Jessica Luxx - vocalsLisa Jane - backing vocalsIan Lehmann – guitar, keys, celloJamie Harrison – double bas...

08/01/2022

TRIFLE team up with singer-songwriter Heather Seyhun to perform her song 'Feel Your Love.'TRIFLE: Ian Lehmann - guitar; Paul Angas - drums; Jamie Harrison - ...

10/12/2021

Recorded and filmed at Satchel Studio and Flying Guitar Studio, here's Trifle's lates video in the "Jammin' with TRIFLE" series, 'Big Red Button' featuring Chris Hart on sax.

TRIFLE and guest soloist Chris Hart perform 'Big Red Button' Guest: Chris Hart - tenor saxophoneTRIFLE: Ian Lehmann–guitar; Jamie Harrison–bass; Paul Angas–d...

18/11/2021

Grace Emily, next Friday!

12/11/2021

I'm playing this Saturday night at the Wheatsheaf. A very fine collection of songs played by a great band.
https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing?eid=819933&fbclid=IwAR3phCp4awFoAy3B552X3YMg43_kBuY_wD4Qnj1c9PB_1KCjL4ELEiYmj2g

Launching the new single from 'In The Lighter Dark', Steve - along with 'The Keepers' featuring some of Adelaide's finest players including Jen Lush, Paul Angas, Paul Cooper, Mark Seddon, Paul Gooding and Steve Salvi will explore the world of lighthouses and not only that, there&...

30/09/2021

Next week I'm playing this show with Jyoti Singh at Nexus Arts.
Thursday October 7.

https://umbrellafestival.com.au/program/the-closet-recordings-what-if-eva-cassidy-met-jyoti-singh/?fbclid=IwAR2oitEyn2dOCD-X1VXtXVffrg7sNprzIrWjRmFFKsP_Eg9IXrw-qkXuHxE

Being influenced by one of the greatest voices of her generation, Eva Cassidy, Jyoti Singh has been writing her own story and transformed it into a musical masterpiece which is a powerful blend between Eva's brilliant and haunting arrangements and Jyoti's intimate and touching music originals. She w...

15/09/2021

In June I travelled to Denmark, WA, to perform a suite of poetry set to music with Jen Lush, Chris Parkinson and Mark Seddon, with each poet reading their poetry before each songs was performed. It was an incredibly rewarding project to work on.
Here's a short documentary about the process of setting poetry to music.
https://youtu.be/0gCULMyXBao

15/09/2021

Sunday at the Wheatsheaf Hotel. Jen Lush's album 'Let Loose the Beating Birds' gets its vinyl release. Supported by Little Cloud.
Jen Lush band / Little Cloud

15/09/2021

Friday night's gig. I'm playing with Kelly Menhennett alongside Chris Finnen at the Woodville Town Hall's Foyer Friday session.

Get ready for the unveiling of Foyer Fridays’ Main Hall Sessions! Our monthly Friday night music event just got upgraded to the Main Hall of our heritage Woodville Town Hall for a special season of South Australia’s best music and songwriting talents live from our main stage this spring! Join us...

30/08/2021

Watched the Netflix documentary 'Count Me In' last night. As a drummer, I was ready to be entertained, but perhaps not educated, by it.

I also made sure to remind myself that a mainstream look at something I love won't necessarily be the definitive, comprehensive document I would like to see.

I was at least hoping that it would be useful for drum students as a sort of one-stop validation of their instrument and its place in popular music.

Overall I found the documentary meandering, lacking a theme, and at times presumptuous. Thre was no paticular mission statement apparent. Was it a history? An examination of the drummer's role in a band? An appreciation of the simultaneously primeval and yet creative nature of drumming? Not really.

The lack of a narrator was a big omission. It meant that the narrative relied on each interviewee hopefuly mentioning things which could then be cut together, but this method proves confusing. Such as when Stewart Copeland is talking about Ringo Starr, while other interviewees are talking about Copeland without mentioning him by name.

Other sections of the show just lost their way. For example, why the focus on Keith Moon's self-destructive (and everything else-destructive) lifestyle? Does the crazy, loose cannon, rock 'n' roll drummer cliché need to be dragged out again? That's not a highlight of drumming that I'd choose to show my young drum students. They don't know who Animal from the Muppets is and the stereotype wouldn't make much sense to them.

And what was the point of the Drum Doctor visit when, ultimately, the DW drums picked out for the (under-cooked, apart from Cindy Blackman's playing) drum-battle at the end were chosen because of the gold sparkle wrap?!

Disappointing, because there are so many cohesive ways the show could have been tied together. Early on, it seemed as though the history of the drumset was going to be a narrative device, or the way drummers historically used the components of the drumset, or drum solos as a point of difference between genres. But it lost its focus as soon as Chad Smith mentioned socks, helped along by Rat Scabies doing the outdated prog-rock bashing line. (A lot of technical skill-eschewing punk bands would develop into adept and capable musicians. Not Rat Scabies, apparently.)

Narrative dead ends: What happened to Keith Moon and John Bonham? What is the relationship between drums and bass in a band? How much of the early jazz style and of rudimentary technique is still relevant in modern drumming? We were shown the LinnDrum machine, but then what happened to drum programming, looping and sampling after the eighties?

Interesting things not included: What are some of the most iconic drum sounds, beats, and fills that occasionally bring the drums to the fore in popular music? Why weren't Neil Peart, Phil Collins, Terry Bozzio, Hal Blaine, Sheila E, Steve Gadd, Clyde Stubblefield, Jeff Porcaro or Dave Weckl mentioned? How much modern pop actually uses drum sounds from past decades via sampling?

11/08/2021

11 track album

08/07/2021

Listen to The Seagull here : https://ditto.fm/the-seagullFollow Jen Lush:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jlu00/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jen.lu...

30/06/2021

It’s been a while since I’ve played the Grace so this Saturday should be fun. I’m playing with Wren & the Restless Few.

Apart from Friday all gigs are on. Seated and limited capacity.

12/06/2021

Spot of recording today at Mixmasters Studio.