GIG FACTS
- WHO: Kav Temperley singing A Song is a City.
- WHERE: The Irish, Launceston.
- WHEN: Sunday. Temperley will also play at the Republic Bar, Hobart, tomorrow, and The Butter Factory Burnie, on Saturday.
ESKIMO JOE frontman Kav Temperley describes his solo journey as being one of discovery.
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Temperley is playing the songs from the iconic Eskimo Joe album, A Song Is A City, to celebrate the album's 10th anniversary, with his show to come to Launceston on Sunday.
"It was quite a personal album for me," he said.
"Looking back on it now I can see that there is such a linear storyline that runs along with it, and I think if I had told these stories when the album first came out, it would have been slightly ungentlemanly of me.
"It's nice to be able to have a bit of distance from the album's release to tell these stories.
"Pretty much, the show is a storyline set to the music of A Song is a City.
"It was a pretty tumultuous time for us and we were pretty lucky to make it out the other end, so it is basically a tale of triumph and tragedy, of love and betrayal, with the songs a background to that."
Temperley said not only was the show about him telling stories about these songs, but about the audience sharing with him what the songs mean to them.
"I didn't know how this would all go to be honest," he said.
"A Song is A City is one of those albums in the Eskimo Joe catalogue, it is one which the fans get quite passionate about.
"I knew there would be that passion, but as this is the first time I have been out by myself on the road with just me and the guitar, it was the sense of the great unknown."
But the enjoyment has definitely been there for Temperley.
He said he was loving being able to play these tracks without any "judgment" and being by himself, rather than the face of a band.
"Also with Eskimo Joe, we always play in bigger venues, where these are intimate shows, close to the audience," he said.
Temperley said Eskimo Joe would remain on the "holiday" it had been on since 2013's Wastelands for at least the immediate future.
But he is likely to record his own solo album while the band is apart.
"I'm not sure how long it will be, but it will just be a break for us working full-time on a two-year cycle of rehearsing, writing, demoing and recording.
"This time around, everyone just wants to have a year or two between that.
"I'll probably do this solo album this year and then tour it for a year and then in another year and a half after that you'll probably see another Eskies album."
