A one off collaboration in homage to 2021 –and forever- Australian Of The Year Grace Tame by songwriter/performer Dave Graney and studio cat/multi instrumentalist Plutonic Lab aka Leigh Ryan. All instruments played by PlutonicLab . A Ryan-Graney Production.
“Grace Tame is president – in the nations’ brain she’s resident!!” Dave Graney
Clare Moore and I listened to Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins address the National press Club in Canberra February 9th 2021 and heard them speak truth to the nations power. A stellar cultural political moment for the nation. We were driving the Hume Highway between Melbourne and NSW. When we stopped for the night I opened my laptop and used to Twitter to sent a message to Plutonic Lab saying they should collaborate on a track called Grace Tame Is President. (The title a playful tip to Eric B and Rakims classic Eric B Is President) Plutonic said “yes” straight away and here we are.
I asked some fellow players and singers to come on board with their voices and the finished track includes vocal takes and textures from Jodi Phillis, Jane Dust, Penny Ikinger, Lisa Gibbs, Julie Graney, Edwina Preston and Anna Smyrk.
Any money generated to be donated to the Grace Tame Foundation which is a not-for-profit philanthropic organisation established by the 2021 Australian of the Year, Grace Tame, to campaign for and help fund initiatives which work to prevent and respond to sexual abuse of children and others.
https://www.thegracetamefoundation.org.au/
We had worked with Plutonic in 2007 on a show we did called The Bewdy Of Speed.
The song should be available soon. This week I hope. Via Bandcamp or itunes and other music portals.
I just think Grace Tame has been a beacon of humanity in such bleak times in Australia. The LNP coalition have just been such turds and the stranglehold they have over all the media - including the ABC- has been terrible. This young woman cut through it all. To me she represents an unofficial, authentic Australia that is rarely glimpsed or allowed any play in the public realm. (Mainstream Australia being such a timid, awkward and fearfully obedient culture)The fact she has been such an articulate advocate has been so great. She's angry and powerful but she always hits her targets. GRACE TAME IS PRESIDENT!
The lyrics wrote themselves...
Grace Tame is president
in the nations brain she’s resident
all time all tame all wild no shame
she brings the noise and stings the boys
Grace Tame is President…
no fear
no fear
the blue gangs
the carpet strollers
get outta the way!
cos Grace Tame is president
Grace Tame is president
in the nations brain she’s resident
governor general – if you have to
governor general- if you want
but
Grace Tame is president
all time all tame all wild no shame
she brings the noise and stings the boys
Grace Tame is President…
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