Drive time '84 David Chesworth and Bill McDonald

The One Star Gallery hosts a special performance in 2 sets by David Chesworth and Bill McDonald. Doors 7 pm for a 7:30 start. Effort will be made to provide full seating. Full bar available.

Described recently as “minimalist post-punk lounge-groove,” Drive Time was originally broadcast live from Trinity College Chapel in Melbourne during the drive-time slot on a chilly winter evening in 1984 on ABC Radio 3AR (the posh AM station). This unlikely invitation came from a time when ABC Radio took arty risks—how else would something like this happen?

With David Chesworth on vocals, electronics, and a DX7 keyboard, and Bill McDonald on bass, the quirky songs—sometimes plaintive, often gutsy—startled Melbourne’s business commuters driving home that winter evening 40 years ago.

The broadcast also included interludes of Bach organ music played live on the chapel’s organ. An announcer, seated in the chapel’s pews and wearing a thick coat (it was cold), would occasionally stand in front of a mic to give traffic and weather updates to the invisible commuters.

The original broadcast, captured by the engineer on cassette, was reissued recently by Chapter Music, much to the delight of new audiences.

This music event takes place during an exhibition of paintings in the gallery by Kristian Shaw entitled "Violettomania"