Sam Buckley interview

The Armidale Express

ACM interviews Blues man Sam Buckley ahead of his set at the Big Chill festival 2024.

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00:00 We'll start with the motorhome thing.

00:02 Yeah, sure.

00:04 Yeah, Fyra, what you were saying,

00:06 you've been living in a motorhome for a couple of years

00:08 and doing time touring,

00:10 and you're here in Armadale, and last night

00:12 you were at the Gold Coast.

00:14 Yeah, exactly. So we've lived in a motorhome the last

00:16 two and a half years, and I've been

00:18 a full-time musician, so we've spent

00:20 most of our time on the road

00:22 and a lot of time travelling

00:24 and just going to shows

00:26 and gigs, so we see a lot

00:28 of the country that way, and it's

00:30 a lot of fun. So what are your thoughts, like,

00:32 living on the road,

00:34 you're playing a lot of places, you're playing metro

00:36 places, you're playing regional places.

00:38 What are your thoughts, given

00:40 the current state of live music

00:42 in Australia, lots of festivals cancelling,

00:44 closing down, such as Canberra

00:46 and so forth, what are your thoughts

00:48 on regional areas

00:50 like Armadale, putting on festivals

00:52 and events like this, considering

00:54 those circumstances? Yeah,

00:56 I think it's really great that the regional areas

00:58 put on live music.

01:00 I think the regional areas have always had a great

01:02 appreciation for live music.

01:04 I think, you know, a lot of them

01:06 are people of the land and

01:08 hard-working people and things like that,

01:10 and after they've done their week's work, a lot of them

01:12 they do love that earthy connection

01:14 to the soul that music

01:16 brings, and so I think in the regional

01:18 areas, you know, live

01:20 music is still

01:22 healthy and well overall,

01:24 but I do think the economic

01:26 situation

01:28 is putting a lot of pressure on things

01:30 obviously and making it harder,

01:32 and I also think, you know, from the

01:34 pandemic, it changed habits of people

01:36 a little bit as well, like people tend

01:38 to stay home a bit more now

01:40 because they got used to that during the pandemic,

01:42 so that's changed things a little bit, but I

01:44 reckon we can get them back.

01:46 I think that's it.

01:48 We're after you today, you're on the road again

01:50 obviously, but heading off, which

01:52 direction are you heading? Yeah, so this week

01:54 when we're not on the road, we're based down

01:56 the mid-north coast, so we've got

01:58 sort of a little lodging there at my parents

02:00 where we park up, which is cool,

02:02 and so I've got

02:04 a few days off, and then next

02:06 weekend I'm playing at the Bellingen

02:08 Blues Festival, and

02:10 the Lawrence Lantern Music Festival

02:12 which is out at Maclean.

02:14 Cool, cool. So you've got a couple of days in Armidale

02:16 to see some of the

02:18 sights on offer here in town and

02:20 out and about in the area. Exactly, yeah,

02:22 we're not going to rush off, we're going to soak

02:24 up the beauty around here and

02:26 you know, enjoy the culture.

02:28 Cool, you came at a good time of year, it's

02:30 one of the prettiest times of year in town.

02:32 Yeah, well look at this, here's the sun.

02:34 There it is. There it is. We thought

02:36 it was coming.

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