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My Friend The Chocolate Cake perform at the Recital Centre in Melbourne on 16 June 2017. Photo by Ros OGorman

David Bridie performs with My Friend The Chocolate Cake perform at the Recital Centre in Melbourne on 16 June 2017. Photo by Ros OGorman

My Friend The Chocolate Cake Debut Jeffrey Smart Video With Jeffrey Smart Artwork

by Paul Cashmere on July 5, 2017

in News

My Friend The Chocolate Cake’s latest video is a homage to Australian artist Jeffrey Smart and features the artworks of Jeffery Smart with thanks to Stephen Rogers, archivist for the Jeffrey Smart estate.

‘Jeffrey Smart’ by My Friend The Chocolate Cake is a song from the new album ‘The Revival Meeting’.

Lead singer and songwriter David Bridie credits his mother for introducing him to the work of Jeffrey Smart. “She was an abstract painter in her day,” David tells Noise11.com. “Whenever I’d go out to visit her she had this Jeffrey Smart. She was a big fan. I was very aware of it. I have a thing about shipping containers and that is all to do with the Jeffrey Smart series of paintings”.

Bridie has used the basics of Smart as an influence on his own songwriting. “When I look at Jeffrey Smart’s work I think if I were to approach songwriting like that it is shifting focus, it is looking outside of the square a bit. Sometimes there is a beauty in just ordinary people going about their lives,” David says.

“It’s like finding beauty in the ordinary. It’s a lovely concept. I think it’s a humanitarian concept that a shipping container, when the light is on it the right way and when you take the angles in the way that the colours work it has a beauty and intrigue to it. Sometimes it’s not a beauty, it takes your attention”.

David Bridie talks about Jeffrey Smart and The Revival Meeting album this week at iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com. Stream the show live now.

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My Friend The Chocolate Cake dates

July 21, Brisbane, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts
July 28, Newcastle, Lizottes
July 29, Sydney, York Theatre Seymour Centre
August 4, Adelaide, Dunstan Playhouse
August 11, Blue Mountains, Blue Mountains Theatre
August 12, Canberra, Street Theatre
August 18, Castlemaine, Theatre Royal
August 19, Wagga Wagga, Civic Theatre
August 20, Griffith, Regional Theatre

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