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Ned Collette
12+ albums
folksinger-songwriteraustralianindiemelbourne
about
Ned Collette is a Melbourne singer-songwriter signed with the Australian record label Dot Dash. Collette’s musical history to date draws on a broad sound palette: an honours degree in modern composition, works for string quartets, various electro-concrete pieces and playing in a variety of loose fit outfits whilst focusing his talents in City City City. Parallel to all this Collette produced his own album, Jokes & Trials. Forgoing the democracies of a group Collette played close to all the instruments, wrote all the songs as well as singing. Collette admits that the influence of Leonard Cohen, Robert Wyatt and Cat Power led him to focus more and more on the importance of the lyrics. This resulted in his debut album Jokes & Trials, which was released on July 29, 2006. Early on Collette developed a unique live technique of using guitar loops and delays on stage, building percussive and melodic layers over which he presented his songs. He toured the album globally alongside artists such as Joanna Newsom and Camera Obscura as well as playing his own headlining gigs. His debut album Jokes & Trials was released on July 29th 2006 and the follow up Future Suture on Sep 29 2007. In 2007, he introduced a bassist and drummer (both ex-City City City colleagues), adopting the name of "Ned Collette Band". The line up is: * Ned Collette - vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar * Ben Bourke - electric bass, backing vocals * Joe Talia - drums, backing vocals In March 2009
