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DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND, WE HAVE RELEASED A SECOND PERRY KEYES SHOW!
Perry grew up in the inner city working class area of Sydney known as Redfern. He grew up in a home populated by various uncles, aunts, cousins and grandparents. Every Saturday morning his grandmother would do the house work whilst playing the likes of Ray Charles and Roy Orbison at a volume loud enough to spill out onto the neighbouring streets, lined with tightly-packed terraced houses, warehouses and textile factories.
When he was 12, he got his first guitar and within six months he’d written his first song. It was during his first year at high school that his family moved to the neighbouring area of Waterloo, with its high-rise Department of Housing blocks. It was within this environment that Perry formed the band The Stolen Holdens in 1988. Musically inspired by the likes of The Clash and Elvis Costello and lyrically taking his cue from artists like Lou Reed and Bruce Springsteen, Keyes and The Stolen Holdens developed a small but loyal following in the local Sydney music scene.
The band faded by the early 90’s and Perry re-emerged in 2003, playing solo sets featuring songs that would make up the bulk of his debut double album Meter– released in 2005 to critical acclaim and numerous years end best-of lists.
His next album The Last Ghost Train Home was released in 2007. It went on to be short-listed for the Australian Music Prize and was named the ABC Radio National Album of the Year.
His ARIA nominated 3rd album, Johnny Ray’s Downtown contains 16 tracks that once again draw on Perry’s local environment – the marginalised, often neglected and rapidly decaying inner city areas of Sydney – for their inspiration.
With Sunnyholt the focus shifts west to the outer Sydney suburbs where Perry's family travelled in the late 1960s and 1970s only to find an environment devoid of infrastructure and struggling to birth a community.
His latest studio album, Jim Salmon's Lament was released in 2018 and was followed by his first live album. Live in B-Town was released at the end of 2021.
A new studio album is scheduled for release in 2023.
Take a listen to some of Perry’s music below with ‘Railway Square’:
Perry Keyes, Railway Square - YouTube
Below with ‘Wentworth Park’:
Perry Keyes, Wentworth Park - YouTube
And ‘One Cone Cul De Sac’ below:
Perry Keyes, One Cone Cul De Sac - YouTube
This is a show with premium front row seating as well as general admission (mostly seated). Doors open at 3pm and tickets can be purchased below:
See you there :)