Live Music with ' Fred Smith ' at the Tathra Hotel .

Sat 8th Feb. 4:30pm - 7:30pm
Sun 9th Feb. 4:30pm - 7:30pm

Free admission.

Fred Smith will be getting together at the Tathra Hotel with Liz Frencham and legendary sidemen Dave O’Neill (Eric Bogle Band etc) and Mitch Preston for to play songs from his rich back catalogue and new CD ‘Domestic’. This effervescent new record combines Fred’s musings on 21st Century Australia with love songs for middle-aged people. This is his first album in 8 years not to contain songs about war and death.

A singer-songwriter renowned for his travelogue albums (Dust of Uruzgan, Bagarap Empires, Texas), Fred Smith has turned his attention to the domestic frontier with the wry observation and humour that are his trademark.

‘Domestic’ captures 21st Century Australia under pressure from drought to digital overload, bushfires to Bondi. It’s an essentially Australian album not just in its subject matter but in its outlook. “We’re a race of pistakers for better or worse, mostly for better – a scepticism which, I’d like to think, protects us from being duped”.

And a wry humour runs right through the album - there is a streak of comedy even through even it’s most serious songs. Although an overall exuberant album, Domestic does get serious. The aperture narrows in the second half of the record to a more personal suite of what might be called ‘love songs for middle aged folks’.

The album cover features Smith in a blue shirt against a pink backdrop. This is his first album in eight years not to contain songs about war. “I’m out of the beige and in to the pink!” Says Smith.