Eddie Ink launches his second album "Daydream at Nighttime" at Shotkickers on Sunday 30th April accompanied by a live band and special guests Wilson & White kicking off the evening.

“Making the album was an absolute pleasure, greatly enhanced by the level of care, love and understanding given by all the musos who worked on it. Thank you one and all.” - Eddie Ink

The upcoming album Daydream at Nighttime from Melbourne Blues crooner Eddie Ink is nothing short of a remarkable achievement, recorded before and through COVID-19 at Rolling Stock Recording Rooms, mixed and mastered by Tomas Strode and co-produced by Eddie Ink, Amy Jones and Christopher Windley. Daydream At Nighttime features powerful guest performances from friends fostered through his new community who have been inspired by Eddie’s songcraft, story and spirit and is set for release Thursday 20 April and will be celebrated with a live show with a very special guests Christopher Windley (Skyscraper Stan), Amy Jones (Rat Child), Christy Wositzky-Jones (Empress), Domini Forster (Lior), Danika Smith and Jordan Clay (Doe Eyes) at Thornbury’s Shotkickers with an early evening show on Sunday 30th April.

Before the album’s release, Eddie is gifting us with the new single ‘Home Sweet Home’, a song that was born out of an alcoholic haze after living in a tin shed in St Kilda for seven years and Eddie finally becoming sober and coming returning to society. The final chapter of Eddie’s emergence from a haze of mental illness and addiction onset by childhood abuse and Bipolar Disorder into songwriting and healing, “‘Home Sweet Home’ is such an anthem for Eddie’s whole story and the album. From the first moment, the driving heartbeat of Chris Windley’s kickdrum lets us know we are on an epic journey and the uplifting cacophony at the end (featuring a choir of voices, horns from Anna Gordon and a guitar solo from Dan Parsons) does not disappoint. I love this song, especially the outro which features a gentle yet playful solo guitar riff from Eddie after the huge build that comes just before. It’s as if Eddie’s walking off into the sunset with a spring in his step, now that he has found his community - his home - he is never alone, even if he is on his own. Home sweet home,” recalls co-producer Amy Jones.

Boasting 11 tracks oozing with classic blues tunes, each song tells an important part of Eddie’s journey to sobriety. The album’s opening ‘It’s a Wonder’ sets up the album by touching on Eddie’s past family life and overcoming the early traumas, centring through moments of reflection in ‘Sitting Here’, and Long Time Dead’s story of seizing life - “How long is life? We don’t know. It's best to get one with it now while you have the chance” - Eddie Ink. The Heart of the album ‘Death of a Chorus’ couples Eddie’s storytelling with strings, before stripping back for a piano vocal duo with Christy Wositzky-Jones (Empress, Rat Child, Skinny Wizard) in ‘Bury Me Standing’, and a heart-wrenching tribute to a dear friend for ‘Gael’s Song’s’. Classic and bluesy, ‘Moving on Blues’ highlights Eddie’s artistry through thoughts of moving on, and the first two singles ‘Fistful of Fingers’ and ‘Daydream at Nighttime’ put a positive spin on finding a way through and seeing things from alternative angles. The material moves through the latest single ‘Home Sweet Home’ and closes on a moment of historic vulnerability with ‘It Never Really Gets Dark in St Kilda’ - “The story of St. Kilda can’t be separated from folks like Eddie. These stories need to be told so we can be reminded of how the geography and culture of an urban place is really the product of those who live there and you can paint over that and shine it up but the heart of St.Kilda is and always will be in the folks like Eddie who call it home and who find comfort in its chaos.” - Amy Jones, producer (Rat Child).

Living his best sober life, prolific songwriter, Eddie is already busy writing his third album from his humble home in a St Kilda rooming house and convinced he is destined to live to 100 years, he is showing no signs of slowing down any time soon!

Daydream at Nighttime album out Thursday 20 April via Bandcamp: https://eddieink.bandcamp.com/album/daydream-at-nighttime

Eddie Ink - Daydream at Nighttime Album Launch
Shotkickers, 744 High St, Thornbury

Sunday 30th April
Supports: Wilson & White

Doors: 7pm

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