Splendour In The Glass House - Songwriting Workshop & Studio Concert - 8 Ball Aitken & Allan Caswell

8 Ball Aitken & Allen Caswell are hosting an all day songwriting workshop (10am-4pm) and a studio concert (6pm-9pm) at 8 Ball's studio in the Glass House Mountains, QLD, 4518. Participants can either attend the Workshop 10am-4pm ($120), the Concert 6pm-9pm ($40), or the package deal Workshop + Concert ($150).

Studio address will be provided upon booking.

About your hosts...

ALLAN CASWELL

At the 2024 Golden Guitar Awards Allan Caswell received the ultimate accolade in Australian Country Music, when he was elevated to the Roll of Renown. This was in recognition of his huge contribution as a songwriter, artist, author, and record producer.

Caswell is easily Australia’s most recorded songwriter with over 990 of his songs being released around the world by artists of the calibre of Cilla Black, Patti Page, The Irish Rovers, Steve Earle, The Living End, Slim Dusty, Barry Humphries, The Bushwackers, Ricki May, James Blundell, McAlister Kemp, Graeme Connors, Anne Kirkpatrick, Chad Morgan, Lynne Hamilton, Beccy Cole, The  Flying Emus, Bullamakanka, Don Spencer, The Wolfe Brothers and Ella Hooper among dozens of others.

At the 2020 Golden Guitar Awards Allan Caswell picked up his 8th Award … (with Manfred Vijars for Bush Ballad of the Year). This represents a huge span of 40 years from his first Award in 1980.

In 1979 Caswell wrote the theme for the Australian television series “Prisoner” (Cell Block H in England) … “On The Inside” was a number 1 hit in Australia and New Zealand in 1979 and later reached number 3 in the UK and the Patti Page version made the country charts in the USA. After the success of “On The Inside” he went fulltime and has made a living writing and performing ever since.

 Caswell has won 8 Golden Guitars from 49 finalist nominations … he has also been awarded 17 songwriting Awards from the Tamworth Songwriters Association, including The Songmaker Award He has won 9 Awards at the Independent Country Music Awards (Southern Stars) including Album of The Year for 3 of his albums. He was also included in Tamworth’s Galaxy of Stars and Hands Of Fame. He is the go-to cowriter for many of Australia’s top artists.

 His performing career has taken him to virtually every town in NSW, every state in Australia, NZ, LA, New York, Nashville, Texas, East Timor, Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan.

At the end of 2020 Caswell formed Lynchburg with multi-instrumentalist Lindsay Waddington, resulting in 3 albums and a whole string of top 10 country hits.

On Australia Day 2025 Caswell started his Really Long Goodbye Tour, where he intends to revisit the paces he has enjoyed playing at over the years.

8 BALL AITKEN

8 Ball Aitken has toured the world performing his blues, soul, swamp-rock and groovy slide-guitar across twenty countries to date. He’s earned a loyal fanbase from his live shows and internet videos, while paying his dues as a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer. He’s headed to Memphis with Taya Chani and his band in January 2026 to represent the Blues Association of South East Queensland at the International Blues Challenge.

8 Ball moved to Nashville, Tennessee, USA in 2012 and worked for nine years with many of the best in the blues business today. He won second place in the 2021 International New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival.

8 Ball is back with a brand-new collaboration album ‘Nightbird’. He wrote and produced the recording with soul singer Taya Chani at his home studio in the Glass House Mountains. The title-track ‘Nightbird’ immediately hit #1 on the Australian AMRAP Regional Charts in March 2025 for two weeks in a row as did their second single ‘Miss You The Most’ in May. 8 Ball & Taya’s signature harmonies and groovy guitars have proved to be a winning combination and festival favorite.

8 Ball’s previous two self-produced albums ‘ICE CREAM MAN’ & ‘ICE CREAM MAN 2’ both hit #1 on the Australian Blues & Roots Charts. The cast of musicians include 8 Ball’s band plus Grammy winning drummer Tom Hambridge (Buddy Guy) and saxophone legend Buddy Leach (George Thorogood & The Destroyers).

8 Ball regularly tours Australia and USA. Tour dates, tickets, videos, merchandise and more are all available from 8ballaitken.com