Jebediah

Moving on now to a few songs of the '90s.

Here's Jebediah.

Were you left out by your friends? And were you lost for words when everybody finally told you what they thought? You can't keep up with the trend.

It makes you lose, but somehow everybody always makes up in the end.

Uh, I know that she's mainly singing jazz now, but she was in Yackandandah just a couple of years ago, uh, singing songs of Joni Mitchell.

Such a versatile, talented woman.

And we started off that group of three with a killer band of the '90s and beyond, Jebediah.

Uh, they were from Perth, and they were launched onto the Oz music scene with their 1995 album, Slightly Odd Way.

Great Australians, I believe.

Canara Cowboy, UMI, Powderfinger, Jebediah.

Wow,

that's a throwback.

Or occasionally it'll be a wistful memory of a clean dancers in a mental health facility pop up in my mind.

But draining out all of those sounds is the infectious licks of the guitars and bass from Chris Damon, Kevin Mitchell, Ness Thornton and the thumping drums of Brett Mitchell, all of whom make up Jebediah.

Soundtracks to growing up don't get much better than the one-two punch of Slightly Oddway and of Someday Shandles.

Tracks that spoke to my youthful boredom and malaise of growing up in Perth.

Here was a language that I understood.

30 years on and Jebediah is still going strong and still speaking a language that many of us West Aussies and the rest in Australia too, can't forget about them, speak.

As a culmination of that longevity, filmmaker and muso in his own right, Arlo Cook, spent 10 years following the band, interviewing them and capturing gigs, all the while combing through decades of archival material to pull together to the brilliant documentary, Jebediah, Are We Okay? This film is heading out into Australian cinemas on the 8th of October.

But before then, there are going to be some Q&A screenings around the nation.

Or occasionally it'll be a wistful memory of a clean dancers in a mental health facility pop up in my mind.

But draining out all of those sounds is the infectious licks of the guitars and bass from Chris Damon, Kevin Mitchell, Ness Thornton and the thumping drums of Brett Mitchell, all of whom make up Jebediah.

Soundtracks to growing up don't get much better than the one-two punch of Slightly Oddway and of Someday Shandles.

Tracks that spoke to my youthful boredom and malaise of growing up in Perth.

Here was a language that I understood.

30 years on and Jebediah is still going strong and still speaking a language that many of us West Aussies and the rest in Australia too, can't forget about them, speak.

As a culmination of that longevity, filmmaker and muso in his own right, Arlo Cook, spent 10 years following the band, interviewing them and capturing gigs, all the while combing through decades of archival material to pull together to the brilliant documentary, Jebediah, Are We Okay? This film is heading out into Australian cinemas on the 8th of October.

But before then, there are going to be some Q&A screenings around the nation.