Colin Macpherson

I was born in Melbourne, Australia. When I was twelve years old I bought an old, left-handed guitar from a school friend. It changed my life. The first song I remember writing had a chorus line that began, “My wahine, my surfer girl.” I guess it neatly combined two other important aspects of my existence back then. My musical adventures have been many: traipsing around London in the heyday of the Beatles, trying to interest record labels in my material (‘Some Consolation’ on the 2015 album Signs of Corrosion is one of those faraway songs);

helping to start up a hippy community where I played guitar and sang locally in order to buy fuel for the tractor; developing what I think is a unique guitar sound and style for particular songs ('Ha Bedee Duranjah' on the 2018 album Synaptic Overflow… see more