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Horizon Brings Together John Farnham Band of Stuart Fraser, Brett Garsed and Angus Burchall

by Paul Cashmere on May 13, 2025

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The unfamiliar band name Horizon will have a familiar sound as Horizon features three members of the John Farnham Band, Angus Burchall, Brett Garsed and the final recordings of the late Stuart Fraser of Noiseworks.

Brett was a regular in the Farnham band since ‘Whispering Jack’. Angus joined for ‘Age of Reason’ and Stuart first popped up in the John Farnham Band for the ‘Romeo’s Heart’ album.

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“The fact that he was so passionate really galvanised the unit of musicians,” Horizon singer and composer lee Bradshaw tells Noise11. “I know Angus and Brett and Chet had all been playing together for many, many years in John Farnham’s band before they were working on the Horizon project with me. For Horizon we were all able to capitalise on that musical synergy. It is testament to the fact that we pretty much recorded the album in a day with the exception of my vocal overdubs. All the band tracks were pretty much one day in the studio”.

Horizon’s recordings from a decade ago will be released as the Horizon album due May 16, 2025. It is a bittersweet project for the four remaining members. “It did turn out to be Stuart Fraser’s last album recording,” Lee says. “It would have been (recorded) about 2015. That time we were also making a film of the making of this record. Some of that footage has been included in our new video single. It was just great to see Chet (Stuart Fraser) in full flight. It was just prior to him becoming ill. It was really great to see that again”.

“It was a project when Chet passed away about five and a half years ago now it was a real head scratcher with what do we do with this record,” says Lee. “He was so passionate about it and it was so much of what the record is now, at least how I tried to complete it, it is based on his ideas and his concepts including the album art and the way it is presented, down to the song choices even. We had the record mastered at 301 by Leon Zervos, which was Chet’s idea.

“Of course the other guys in the band, Brett Garsed, Angus Burchill and my longtime collaboration Richard Panaia from Western Australia. It’s really great after all these years to see it coming out. Thanks to the Pop Preservation Society guys as well for passionately pushing ahead with it”.

The Horizon album is available here https://www.horizonmusic.com.au

Horizon will showcase the album live as a tribute to Stuart Fraser 8 August 2025 at the Evelyn Hotel in Melbourne.

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