Ahoy there, scallywags and fans of Fringe. If ye be looking for the ultimate Sunday session this Fringe season, climb aboard with The Captain & Friends for 'A Journey Through Sound'. Yahr!
It's anchors up and all hands on deck as The Captain and his ragtag crew launch off 'A Journey Through Sound', treating audiences to a selection of classic music from the watery realms of funk, soul, disco, hip hop and everything in between.
“Lots of big tunes and good booze, really. What more could you want for a Sunday session?” The Captain aka Liam McGoldrick asks. It's clearly a rhetorical question.
'A Journey Through Sound' is a chance for Liam to don his captain's hat, trawl through his crates of wax and put some deep cuts under the needle for your listening pleasure while you knock back a brew or two.
“I never go into anything with too much of a set list because that just gets a bit boring.
“You’ve got to see what people are feeling on the day, but it always starts off fairly chilled out with weird and wonderful funk and soul that a lot of the time people haven’t heard.”
Liam goes on to say his unstructured approach to programming the show tends to make for some surprising, off-the-cuff selections.
Michael Jackson is likely to get a spin when Liam McGoldrick aka The Captain is at the helm.
“That often leads down into some weird tangents in music, which is great. I'm often surprised myself,” he laughs.
“Lots of weird Afro-funk and weird Italo disco stuff; records that I've picked up on a whim like ‘oh that looks cool, I'll give it a try’. There’s so much amazing stuff out there; so many records and so little time to collect them all.”
While Liam will be diving deep for hidden treasure, he says there's also plenty of well-known tracks that everyone has heard and enjoys.
“You can’t just play deep cuts of weird and wonderful things all the time, you got to keep people invested in it by playing the more, for lack of a better word, commercial sort of stuff. There’s a bit of MJ [Michael Jackson] in there, you’ve got to have a bit of MJ in there sometimes to get people moving on the night.”
An Adelaide local, Liam's moniker as The Captain is a leftover from his days in the merchant navy. Now a sailor on the seas of sound, he says there's no better time to be in Adelaide than Fringe season.
“I love Fringe, I thrive on fringe and I like to think of it as my time of the year; it’s when The Captain becomes The Captain the most I believe,” he says, energised by the prospect of performing.
“It’s a little bit daunting but at the same time the fact I'm doing a show with a bunch of mates in my hometown during Fringe time is great, it’s really exciting. It’s a great time of year, I just wish it would go longer to be honest. There’s so much variety, from music to performing arts and comedy, everything. It's such a good time of the year.”
