This television segment was produced by ABC Australia. The journalist who conducted the interview was Jane Cunningham. The concert footage was filmed at The Metro Theatre in Sydney, Australia on 28 August 1995. *The J Files - Jeff Buckley Australian Interview:* kzread.info/dash/bejne/h62OwdarqJDZeLQ.html 01:06 *Interview* 02:22 *So Real* 03:01 *Interview* 03:36 *Dream Brother*

The fact that Jeff actually went to London, Paris, Sydney and Tokyo in his short lifetime is so fascinating.

His last words on 'Grace' - "asleep on the sand, with the ocean washing over". How scarily prophetic...sadly...

@MojoPin1983

5 жыл бұрын

It is merely coincidental. An even more ominous lyric, though, is the opening line of the last song on Disc 1 of Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk: You & I. “Ah, the calm below that poisoned river wild.” He also recorded that just a few months before he drowned in a river.

@thetheraine

2 жыл бұрын

@@MojoPin1983 - I just got your post 3 years late...

@grafito4438

Жыл бұрын

yet in his own words, he said "Grace is about my own death, and how I have no fear of it". from his muchmusic interview.

@thetheraine

Жыл бұрын

@@grafito4438 - some psychic said they channeled Jeff Buckley who basically said, 'when he got dragged under, he didn't fight it, he just went with it'... only a highly evolved human could do that... I'd be terrified and thrashing about...

@Gramsgirl-ie8fb

Жыл бұрын

@@thetheraine Yes, I think he also knew he wouldn’t live long. He had told a friend that he had been having dreams about his death in the weeks leading up to it. There’s also the eerie tie in with some of his song lyrics as well. I truly believe that he had one foot in this world and his other foot in the spiritual realm. I do think his death was an accident though. But like the psychic medium said, he didn’t mean for it to happen, but he didn’t fight it either. He was at peace with it.

Will never have enough of Jeff Buckley - listen over & over & over & over, year after year after year

unbelievable...just when i thought i'd seen it all. what a profoundly beautiful person he was...

Music has to happen to people in a moment, you know. And then it gets in the bloodstream, it’s just you need it, physically. - Jeff Buckley ♫ ♥

Beautiful footage! He may not have lived long, but he lived free. Love his disarming honesty, too. :)

This is priceless...Thank you so much for sharing:)

@MojoPin1983

5 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome. Click on the link in my pinned comment in order to see a higher quality - though abbreviated - version of this.

@michaelmattice4986

5 жыл бұрын

@@MojoPin1983 Thanks!!!:)

One of my life long regrets is not having seen JB live when he was in Austalia, however I was not introduced to him until 1998, after he passed, something I will always regret.

@dianaicnaiad

2 жыл бұрын

longing can be a source of beauty..

The interview got recorded at Steyne Park located in Double Bay, part of Eastern Suburbs in Sydney. Great place to have done this interview. As some of his popularity derived from Australia, he did two separate tours between August 1995 to March 1996... Would of been great to see one of his live performances :(

@MojoPin1983

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Ben for the information re the interview location. Now if only I could come across the entire interview and perhaps more footage from his gig at the Metro Theatre. I wonder what other footage exists from his time in Australia? I believe his store appearance at Blockbuster Music on the following day would have been filmed.

@the19thcentury81

6 жыл бұрын

Anytime. The interview also aired on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Channel) and conducted by journalist Jane Cunningham, the woman speaking 3:23. He simultaneously did some radio interviews for Triple J in late August and early September 1995 which are available on KZread in full. This is the original version of the aired interview, but as you said, it does look like it's been edited. The only thing possible would be to talk to the ABC Archives if the full version still exists.

@MojoPin1983

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm aware of the radio interviews he did in Australia and I have checked the ABC archives, but to no avail. It would be nice to get in touch with Jane Cunningham and ask her personally if more of the show was filmed. Thanks for the help.

@the19thcentury81

6 жыл бұрын

moreimages.net/2013/05/jeff-buckley/ This provides all the information on the day the interview was taken :) It was on August 30, 1995 :)

@MojoPin1983

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, I have read that before. Thanks.

Finally more of this interview in the pink shirt. Thanks for posting!!

Thanks for this. It's obvious Australia loved Jeff.

4:12 you sleep in the ground with your family weeping over....

Wow, just going back to the Dream Brother at the end of this again and he is killing it. So powerful! There should be a official release of this show. I think it's the one he mixed himself?

@MojoPin1983

Жыл бұрын

@Gregory French I’m pretty sure the show that Jeff mixed and produced was from the ‘96 Hard Luck Tour.

...OUR GRACE...

Being a huge fan of Jeffs I don't think I've ever heard him use those particular lyrics for the end of "Dream Brother" which I find very telling... Fans have long speculated that although Jeff claimed the song was written for friend Chris Dowd, that it was actually about Jeff's father Tim. Hearing the ending changed to also include the lyric "Asleep in the ground with your family weeping over." I think it's safe to say that although Jeff would never admit it, this song was at least in part about his father.

@zachchernitzer8734

9 жыл бұрын

iLitAfuseiCantStop Chris was expecting a child, and Jeff said he wrote it as a warning to Chris because Chris was having doubts - it was a "My father did this to me, don't do it to your kid" kinda thing. Also, he's used that ending before, at least a few times (Glastonbury '95 - check it out, that's my favorite one). He never played a song the same way twice though.

@iLitAfuseiCantStop

9 жыл бұрын

Zach Chernitzer Thanks so much for your insight. That line of reasoning definitely makes sense. I've also seen the Glastonbury Festival footage. There was a really high quality video of it here on KZread that has semi recently disappeared into the ethos. But even the low quality footage is amazing stuff isn't it?

@zachchernitzer8734

9 жыл бұрын

iLitAfuseiCantStop Absolutely! We'll take what we can get haha

@iLitAfuseiCantStop

9 жыл бұрын

Zach Chernitzer Agreed!

@MojoPin1983

9 жыл бұрын

iLitAfuseiCantStop I have a high quality version of Mojo Pin, Live at Glastonbury, on my Vimeo page (same username as here).

Legend! There will never be another angelic badass like Jeff!

My father was the director of the interview for triple j, he gave Jeff a hug!

@MojoPin1983

3 жыл бұрын

@Shamus Clarke Cool. Is there some way that I can contact him? I would like to ask him if he knows whether B-roll footage (the unedited interview + the concert footage) exists, somewhere.

@shamusclarke7512

3 жыл бұрын

@@MojoPin1983 I'll ask him if he knows about it and get back to you

@MojoPin1983

3 жыл бұрын

@@shamusclarke7512 Thanks.

@MojoPin1983

3 жыл бұрын

@@shamusclarke7512 Any word from your father?

@MojoPin1983

2 жыл бұрын

@@shamusclarke7512 If you see this, can I contact your father, directly, and ask him about this footage? Would this happen to be him?: www.abc.net.au/radio/people/michael-clarke/9349852

Desde la primera vez que te vi senti algo especial, siento una gran tristeza que ya no estes entre nosotros, solamente se encuentra tu espiritu de angel te amo porsiempre :(

Te amoooooooooooooooooooo

I keep hearing Jimmy pages style of playing , mostly the lost Zeppelin song that never came out Swan Song.

@theofthe2299

Жыл бұрын

I keep hearing Nina Simone’s style of singing

What a tease to see/hear these snippets of So Real and Dream Brother in Sydney which have never surfaced in full :/ presumably the local TV crew were not allowed to film the whole show and they probably only got a few minutes here and there. The only show from this first Australian tour to be recorded and released in full is the short RRR Rooftop live radio broadcast performance from a few days later in Melbourne: kzread.info/dash/bejne/q4Oa28uqeZWteZs.html

Is there a recording in its entirety of the this particular show?

@MojoPin1983

3 жыл бұрын

Probably not. The only footage that I have found is this (from ABC Australia). Typically, journalists are allowed to record the first three songs of a concert. Whether or not the full concert, or at least at least the entirety of Dream Brother and So Real still exist, is unknown. ABC might have the unedited full, unedited footage in their archives, or they might have discarded/taped over what wasn’t used in this news segment. I’ve tried contacting said company, but I’ve never gotten a response from them. I also briefly spoke with the journalist in this piece, Jane Cunningham, but that went nowhere, unfortunately.

🎼”Kiss me .. …let me sleep tonight on your couch… “ Remember the smell the fabric.. “Don’t like TV.. doing this.. either because I haven’t found a better surrogate or just going w it right now… “ “Basically… just… uh… What are you doing … “Shaping sound in order to fit a feeling and make sure that that’s a good vehicle for that feeling… and make sure the words are accurately emotional.. emotionally accurate..” - Jeff Buckley 🎼”I feel afraid and I call your name I love your voice and I love your dance… ?insane… Hear your words and know your pain.. your head in your hands… world spinning round… sleep in the ground w your family weeping over… sleep in the sand w the ocean washing over… “ Imagine 28 years… one week w your father when you’re 8.. he dies two months later.. xo.. wowza..

Jeff did a wonderful mission, but he seems to have overworked himself during this period.

@DBZ96587

4 жыл бұрын

Jimi Hendrix was the same, overworked and exploited

His voice isn't all that great. Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson were better!!!!

@MojoPin1983

5 жыл бұрын

Are you kidding me? Also, did you like your own comment? How does it already have a like, after only 5 minutes of being published. Freddie had great power and range, but he didn’t have the nuance that Jeff had.

@rottencherries51

5 жыл бұрын

shut the fuck up

@DBZ96587

4 жыл бұрын

How is a comment like this remotely necessary