00:14:24:I mean, it's difficult to tell|from some of this stuff what we got.
00:14:27:- You've gotta kind of relax and...|- Mm.
00:14:30:...because we got a lot of ideas|about these things,
00:14:32:which are just fucking nothing here,|to be honest.
00:14:35:(PLAYING PIANO)
00:14:41:No, it's not gonna rain.
00:14:48:Hey, he's got the camera rolling.
00:14:50:NICK: I reckon we ought to put down|a couple of basic tracks.
00:14:53:(SYNTHESIZER AND PIANO PLAYING)
00:15:02:Here it comes.
00:15:04:(SYNTHESIZER AND PIANO PLAYING)
00:15:11:# There was a girl called Animal X
00:15:15:# She was not his type|but she's all right
00:15:19:# She's from the city|where there is no... #
00:15:21:Oh, no, I got that wrong.
00:15:24:All right.
00:15:26:# And there's no more air
00:15:29:# Just the distant humming|of a prejudicial prayer
00:15:34:# And she arrives at the town
00:15:37:# And at the gates she meets a boy
00:15:41:# We'll call him Animal Y... #
00:15:53:# She said there's nothing to fear
00:15:58:# Ah, there's nothing to fear|but a bad idea... #
00:16:02:DARIAN: Did your father|ever come to see you play?
00:16:05:He came a couple of times. Both times,|I didn't know that he was there.
00:16:10:He came to the first|New Year's Eve show that I did.
00:16:14:It was a show on a street and I was|kind of rolling around drunk and singing.
00:16:17:The whole band were off their faces.
00:16:20:He asked me how it had gone|and I said, "Oh, it was good,"
00:16:22:and he went, "Yeah, I know, I was there."
00:16:24:- Hm, hm.|- But then he saw me before he died.
00:16:26:It was a paid gig at a club,|like a proper band,
00:16:31:and, um...he was at that, too,
00:16:33:and...and he, er...he saw that|and he made this comment.
00:16:37:- "You were like an angel," he said.|- Hm.
00:16:40:I can't imagine how he could have|seen me in that way, quite frankly.
00:16:42:DARIAN: Seen you as an angel?
00:16:44:(LAUGHS) Yes, an angel.|All things considered.
00:16:47:In that way in which he'd be present,|yet without declaring himself,
00:16:52:did that ever happen at home?
00:16:54:I remember one time my sister|being very upset about something,
00:16:58:and my father putting her to bed|and then leaving the room
00:17:01:and turning the light off, and my sister|was sort of sobbing in the bed, you know,
00:17:05:and then after a while...|We were very young.
00:17:07:I kind of went "Pooh", like that,|and she started to giggle, you know,
00:17:11:and then I went, "Shit",|and she started to giggle more,
00:17:14:and I went, "Fuck"|and so on, and this, er...
00:17:16:- Mm.|- ...until she was kind of laughing
00:17:19:and then I saw the door open|and my father kind of move out...
00:17:23:- Mm.|- ...and I'm kind of like, "Oh!" you know.
00:17:26:So, in all those examples,|he's there like a kind of silent witness?
00:17:31:Yeah. Yeah.
00:17:34:Although he wasn't... To say|that he wasn't present is not correct.
00:17:38:- But in those instances.|- Mm, mm.
00:17:40:My memory of my childhood
00:17:42:was really a kind of wonderful|childhood for a...for a kid.
00:17:48:Does it bring anything to mind,|a memory or...
00:17:51:Well, the Ovens River|ran through Wangaratta
00:17:54:and that's where I spent my childhood,
00:17:57:- just down by that river.|- Mm.
00:17:59:All the kind of cool stuff|that I got up to as a kid.
00:18:01:- What kind of thing?|- Kissing girls.
00:18:05:Jumping off the, er...the railway bridge|that went over this river.
00:18:09:I mean, we would put our ear to the tracks|and listen for the train
00:18:13:and hear it vibrating on the tracks.
00:18:14:Then we would run towards the train, along|the tracks into the middle of a bridge
00:18:19:and the train would come around like this
00:18:21:and we would run|and then we would leap off the, er...
00:18:23:- Mm.|- ...leap off the bridge into the river.
00:18:25:Mm.
00:18:27:All of that kind of daredevil|stuff of childhood,
00:18:29:which...which was very much about|what a lot of my childhood was about...
00:18:33:- Mm.|- ...um, and that I really miss,
00:18:36:that my own children don't get|to experience that sort of stuff.
00:18:41:Mm. What do you fear the most?
00:18:44:(SIGHS) Er...
00:18:50:Hm...
00:18:53:My...biggest fear, I guess,|is losing my memory.
00:18:59:It does worry me at times
00:19:01:that I'm not gonna be able|to continue to do what I do...
00:19:05:um...and reach a place|that I'm satisfied with.
00:19:09:In the sense?
00:19:11:Because memory is what we are,|you know, and I think
00:19:14:that your very soul|and your very reason...to be alive
00:19:19:is tied up in memory.
00:19:20:I mean, I think for a very long time,
00:19:23:I've been building up a kind of world|through narrative songwriting.
00:19:28:It is a kind of world that's created
00:19:31:about those precious, um...
00:19:34:original memories that define our lives
00:19:38:and those memories|that we spend for ever chasing after.
00:19:42:Which memories|do you think you're chasing after?
00:19:44:I think exactly what|we've been talking about.
00:19:47:Those earlier childhood memories.
00:19:50:Those moments when|the gears of the heart really change
00:19:55:and that's...that could be being,|er...discovering some work of art.