Tunesday Revival #1 - Haley Heynderickx
It’s probably best to make no mention of the fact that I haven’t made a post on Tunesday for 3 years. I’ve called this post a ‘revival’ but it’s more like some sort of rise of the living dead. Not to overstate the power of my prose, but I thought it might have been looking like the end for old Zombie Shakespeare over here.
Some excellent gigs and a few great recent finds are all it’s taken for me to come back to this here blog and start sharing a tune every now and then. Dunno if it’s gonna be a weekly thing, but check back every month or so and I’d say you’ll have some new garbage to read and some excellent music to add to your playlists.
This time it’s Haley Heynderickx, who I’ve been lucky enough to see live a couple of times the past couple of weeks, the first supporting Tunesday old mate Angie McMahon at the Melbourne Recital Centre (which was an amazing gig btw) and the second this past Sunday, at The Gaso.
Sunday was a pretty lovely experience. Haley’s typically up there with her band when performing in the States, but us Melburnians were treated to a solo performance and – I gotta say – she left a pretty packed house feeling all warm and fuzzy by the end of a set.
Highlight of the set was the song I’ve posted below, ‘Oom Sha La La’. The punters got behind the sing-a-long vibes that imbue the song, and pretty well lost their shit at Haley’s insistence that she’s overdue to start at garden in her backyard.
Another highlight was just before this song, where, in lieu of silence while tuning her guitar, Haley invited us to introduce ourselves to a stranger standing nearby. Was deathly silent for the first few seconds of this, but she could hardly get us to shut the fuck up for a good few minutes once everyone got going.
Haley’s a massive talent, has a beautiful voice, a great presence on stage and seems like a pretty rad person to boot. Would suggest keeping her on your radar and turning up early to any of the remaining gigs on Angie’s album tour.