WHEN country-music singer Adam Harvey was a young lad, before he was touring Australia and making gold and platinum records he worked in the Fosterville mine.
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“I used to get the guitar out at the Axedale pub and play a few gigs there when I was starting out,” he said.
“I did that for a few years when my uncle had a farm out there. I have some great memories from it.”
Harvey returns to central Victoria next month when he plays at The Capital theatre on October 17.
The Adam Harvey Brings Life tour is helping promote his 12th album, Family Life.
“It’s been a couple of years since I have visited Bendigo but I have played there about half a dozen times,” he said.
“Last time I was there it was the middle of winter and colder than a politician’s promise. But it was still a good gig.”
Family Life focuses on what you would expect, Harvey’s family and how proud he is of them.
“I wrote a lot of songs about that after watching a show like Sunrise and seeing a couple interviewed about how much they hate kids and never want to have them,” he said.
“I was looking at my kids get ready for school and thinking how they are the greatest thing to happen to me so I started writing songs about that.”
More than that, it was a chance to Harvey to work with his kids in the studio.
“They have been in a couple of video clips and in the album booklet,” he said.
“But I wrote a song about my son and sang a duet with my daughter, Layla, which was unbelievable.
“I’ve done a lot of duets with a lot of people over the years but that one’s my favourite.
“Layla has is 11 and I didn’t know how she’d go but she already wants to record more songs. But no more duets with the old man, she wants to go solo.”
The Adam Harvey Brings Life tour has already reached the furthest parts of Australia and beyond with Harvey performing a couple of gigs in Papua New Guinea.
“That was a wild trip. We did a couple of clubs and had a look at the Kokoda Track, which was really special,” he said.
“It really is the wild west or the last frontier, so it’s good to be back.”
Supporting Harvey on his tour will be The Sunny Cowgirls and Chelsea Basham.
Basham is a Golden Guitar winner while country singing, tractor driving sisters Sophie and Celeste (The Sunny Girls) are sure to entertain audiences.
“We will do a couple of new songs, a lot of classic stuff and I’ve got some great new stories about the in-laws and outlaw,” Harvey said.
“We always try and have a good laugh. There’s so much doom and gloom in the world that when you come to a show, you can forget your cares for a few hours and have a singalong.”
The Adam Harvey Brings Life tour arrives in Bendigo on October 17.
