Roadside Ballads

Ten more fine songs from Peter Loveday, self-styled singer-songwriter, originally from Australia, with a taste for existential barroque folk or pop, ingenious lyrics steeped in the beautiful and cruel reality of life. Background Peter Loveday first hit the stage in 1978 in Brisbane, Australia, in The Supports. The Supports split after a slow, pleasant and unrepeatable tour of North Queensland in a double-decker bus with The Go-Betweens. Loveday then went on to play in a number of bands in Brisbane such as Mute 44 and the Birds of Tin before moving to London in early 80s, gigging and recording there for the next seven years with the Brisbane-born, London-based band Tiny Town. He then moved on to Barcelona where he eventually, fired up the furnaces and took the helm once more to record 'A Bend in the Road' (2002), 'Sea-shanties for Landlubbers' (2004), 'Moving Along' (2006), 'Room at the Inn' (2007) and Standard Ideal (2009). In 2008, with the help of Andrew Henley, we recorded the soundtrack for the Rose Kowalski film 'Aix s una construccin', which featured in VAD 2009: Festival internacional de vdeo i arts digitals in Girona, Spain. Four Peter Loveday short stories from the collection Rock Dreams are to appear in the autumn 2009 issue of the literary magazine PEN International, Volume 59, No. 2. A Prolific and assiduous live performer, Peter Loveday has the ability to leave his songs at just the right temperature. This Australian singer songwriter delivers exquisite, crafted pop, graced with acoustic guitar, female backing vocals and the strategic incursions of an opportune violin. The exemplary 'Rose-tinted Glasses' and 'Room At The Inn' are just two of the many new shiny buttons pinned to the repertoire of this outstanding songwriter. Now it's not for me to say whether I think it's badass that I keep getting fun records from Barcelona but, well, keep em coming. This one, Moving Along by Peter Loveday is an old fashion lovely record of the ilk made in late sixties New York with Lou Reed on one shoulder and the Zombies on the other. Some gorgeous slide guitar right away floors me and before we're even half way through it's easy to see it, well, brilliant.