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Produced by Geraldine Quinn

Recorded by Marcello Lo Ricco at LSS Productions 2015/2016
Mixed/Mastered by Simon Moro at ninety nine 100

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Happening Now

Lights go down. Music fades.
Fall silent in anticipation
The audience, the people playing...
Form an unprecedented combination
The first musician hits the drums
The bassist next, then the guitarist strums
And one by one become the band
‘Til finally the singer walks toward the stand
You’re witnessing sound and souls combined
And you’re ready for the opening song to blow your tiny mind

Lights go up. Music swells.
The majesty of amplified rock compels you
To nod your head, to clap along
This many people can’t be wrong
You look around you to share that feeling
Revel in the joy we’re all revealing
But no one’s focussed on the show...
Their downcast faces have a blue-ish glow...
Is this a twisted, science fiction dream…?
Where punters come to concerts to stab at a tiny screen?

Put down your phone
Eyes glued to that thing in your hand
Don’t you realise - IT’S HAPPENING NOW

What the hell is going on?
They’re halfway through the opening song
Someone’s filming, someone Tweets
Someone books a vadge wax for next week
How can you feel the live elation
Through fractals of facsimile pixellation?
A sea of smartphones clogs your view
What for? A fuzzy clip on YouTube?
Will it make the memory more clear
That low-res muffled video of the band right here?

Put down your phone
Every calloused hand in this here band
Is giving you what’s HAPPENING NOW

Don’t try to hold the air
Give in to what you hear
A song gives most if you let it disappear...
IT’S HAPPENING NOW

credits

from The Last Gig In Melbourne, released December 11, 2016
Sonja Horbelt - Drums
Ashley Smith - Bass
Martin Lubran - Gibson 335
Mark Jones - Keyboards
Geraldine Quinn - Walden acoustic, lead vocal

© 2011, 2016 GERALDINE QUINN
WWW.GERALDINEQUINN.COM
WORDS & MUSIC GERALDINE QUINN © 2011

Album artwork by Stacy Gougoulis
'Geraldine Quinn' logo by Barney Sullivan (Seeing Things)

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Geraldine Quinn Melbourne, Australia

Geraldine Quinn is a multi-award-winning writer-actor-songwriter-rock cabaretiér. She's been nominated for 26 Green Room Awards (winning 6), 3 Melbourne Comedy Festival Golden Gibbo Awards (winning in 2011), Best Cabaret in Adelaide Fringe (2013), 2 NZ Fringe Awards (2014) and was nominated for Most Outstanding Show in MICF 2022.

She's healthily enamoured of David Bowie & not at all obsessed.
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