The online home for Fergus Maximus (both the band and the bloke)
The online home for Fergus Maximus (both the band and the bloke)

Festivals

‘Restless Soles’ is in the wild!

After approximately forever, the debut studio album from Fergus Maximus, Restless Soles, was released on Friday, 13 July 2018 to a sold-out crowd at The Wheatsheaf Hotel in Adelaide as part of Music SA’s Umbrella Winter City Sounds Festival and Adelaide Guitar Festival’s Guitars In Bars, ably supported by the wonderful Alison Coppe.

Restless Soles, recorded at Wizard Tone Studios in Adelaide, is an anthology of melodic short stories about people with itchy feet and the road in their eyes; about love, loss and memory and the things we hold on to.
Musically, the album is really varied. There are bouncy pop things, some soulful tracks with a horn section and gospel-inspired backing vocals, some rowdy pop/rock songs, a couple of sparse ballads and a couple of things with strings including one track simply backed by a string quartet.
But how do you get to hear the album? There are SO many ways!

If you want a physical CD, come to a gig some time!.

If you want a physical CD which includes a download go to the Fergus Maximus BandCamp store.

If you just want a download you can get that at BandCamp too or at Amazon, Google Play or iTunes.

Or you can stream it on Spotify or Deezer or Tidal or Apple Music or iHeartRADIO or Napster (apparently that’s still a thing) or in a whole bunch of other places we don’t even know about (we have people for that). If you can’t find your service of choice, just Google it. It’s probably there. If not, let us know and we’ll see if we can hook them up.

Whatever you do, make sure you have a listen. Everyone on the Fergus Maximus team is delighted with how it has turned out

Beyond Festival 2016

Ferg had a fantastic time at his first festival, Beyond Fest in Canberra. He shared the bill with Lior, Megan Washington, Montaigne, Shane Howard (from Goanna), Fred Smith and the lovely Liz Frencham’s new project Paper Mouse (a duet with terrific guitarist Robbie Melville) and heaps of other amazing musicians and communicators. It was beyond awesome! Met lots of wonderful musicians, made new friends, played lots of songs, gained some new fans and generally had a ball, despite the almost Woodstock levels of mud.

Ferg @ Beyond Festival 2016 - standing in front of an almost bare tree
Ferg waiting to go on stage at Beyond Festival 2016 (he was performing at the MMAD stage on Sunday, 2 October; the only sunny day of the Fest)

It’s Fringe Time!

Hey folks,

Ferg is performing in the Fringe for the first time (he’s performed *during* the Fringe before but that’s a different thing). And did we mention that it’s a cabaret?

What the …? Cabaret? Seriously? What’s that all about?

Well, Ferg’s friend, Julie, was organising a cabaret show for the Fringe with another friend, Mardi. They decided they needed a third person who wasn’t a girl and invited Ferg to be that person. (You won’t believe how surprised he was to discover there are people who don’t think he’s a girl*). Ferg decided that Fringe time is when you take risks so he agreed quickly before he could chicken out. (And, yes, he did have to google ‘cabaret’ to make sure he knew what he was getting into. Turns out it’s all about telling stories and that, as we all know, is his bag!).

Ferg, Julie and Mardi are each doing cameo sets, all three ably supported by the wonderful pianist, Ed Heddle. Ferg has reimagined a handful of his songs with piano accompaniment and they are sounding great! Oh, and it’s called ‘Kabarett’ (the German way, apparently).

You can get tickets here (or just google ‘Adelaide Fringe’, then search for ‘Kabarett’).

We’d love to see you there!

*Kidding, really. He’s only occasionally mistaken for a girl.

Fergus Maximus, Mardi Ragless & Julie Roberts in Kabarett - ably accompanied by Ed Heddle

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