I’m now back in France, it is pretty sad to leave Australia after 4 great years over there, and it is also sad to leave my friend the Lavatones (www.myspace.com/thelavatones), but c’est la vie!

At least, this is a good occasion to go back on some of my French projects, such as Vertigo Observer (http://www.myspace.com/vertigoobserver)

Fortunately just before leaving Melbourne & Australia, I had the chance to work in April one last time with the great Cameron McKenzie (Mark Seymour, The Drones, Belle Roscoe, etc etc).

During my stay in Australia between 2006 & 2010, I first worked with Cameron on the “Maybe One Day” CD self produced in 2008 (see https://www.timchesley.com/page-musique-english.html) and then back on other material in 2009.

Just before leaving Australia in May, I wanted to work with Cameron McKenzie one last time, because I wanted him to remix with his “savoir-faire” the songs I had recorded in Paris in 2006 just before coming to Australia (the ones on the 12 track CD simply entitled “Tim Chesley”)

As a result, some songs were only remixed but some other songs were started again from scratch, resulting in a totally different version than the one recorded in 2006, such as “Sans Histoires” for eg.

I will be happy to upload the rest of my works with Cam on this website in a close future.

Other news, my friend Nick Ross and his teammates have created an original concept and website (http://www.mudboard.com/), and here I will let Nick directly introduce the idea behind MUDBOARD: “There’s a real creative buzz starting on Mudboard at the moment: Music, photography, graphic art, poetry, short stories, lyrics, short films, and animation…just some of the wonderful creativity that has been uploaded so far. People have responded by saying things like “I’m very interested in being a part of this amazing website” and “I admire your great work for improving creativity and originality”.

Go and have a look – maybe you could help promote originality and creativity to the world, and inspire it, by uploading some of your creations to Mudboard, and then spreading the word around to friends, associates, creators, watchers, readers, and those famous people that apparently are only 6 degrees away. It’s quick and

easy to do.

Nick ROSS, July 2010″

Cheers.

I have been very busy these last weeks, and unfortunately I haven’t got a lot of time for the music, which is simply very painful to me…

However, I was lucky enough to book one recording day with Cameron McKenzie who produced my “Dreaming is the Way” EP in 2008.

Cam is a great muso, guitar player, engineer & producer, actually on tour in Canada with Mark Seymour (Hunters & Collectors)

That day Graham Thwaites came to play some drums on a revisited & adventurous version of “Maybe one Day”, the highlight already of the 2008 session with Cam.

The other track we worked on is “Dusk”, an instrumental piano based song, inspired by a recent trip to Marysville in Victoria.

Marysville is one of the towns totally wiped out by the bush fires which ocurred in Victoria lately, especially during “black saturday” last February.

We recently visited Marysville after the bush fires, arriving at dusk in this desolated little town lost in the middle of the forest, and it was such a sad & unreal vision that I decided to express my feelings in this instrumental track called “Dusk”.

I hope you enjoy the songs, they can be found, played & downloaded on the MUSIQUE page of the website.

Cheers!

The start of this year has been a little bit painful for me, I broke my leg at indoor soccer, and had to walk with crutches during two months.

And I’ve put aside any idea of gigs or anything.

But meanwhile I’ve been listening to some old stuff, some old recordings, and I thought I’d put on the website a new track “Mesdemoiselles”, which is actually a new old song, since it was recorded back in 2004 in Taverny (Paris, France) where I worked with Alain Parmentier on a few songs, such as “Alcool” too.

I hope you enjoy it, it has an interesting violin part played by a tzigane player if I recall, and great lyrics by my French Cousin Cyrille Latour (and my other cousin Matthieu Latour was playing the drums).

It’s an old song back out there, but it’s always nice to have something new to put on the website

The songs can be found under the MUSIC page of the website under the “morceaux inedits” in 2003-2004.

Hope you enjoy, catch you soon.

Cheers !

Today is history: I have been working since 2004 on a relaxed side-project called VERTIGO OBSERVER with my friend and great musicien Noxize, aka Flesh is the Fever, from Paris.

He is more a techno, drum & bass oriented, I am more a pop/prog rock freak, but we have learned to work together and enjoyed confronting our different musical universes.

The result is VERTIGO OBSERVER, which is a colourful patchwork of these influences, melodic, beat & hypnotic catchy experimentations which we hope you will appreciate.

The reason why it took us 4 years to write 4 songs (that’s what I call productive…) is partly due to the distance, Noxize being in Paris while I am here in Melbourne, Australia.

That’s why I consider these 4 tracks real little gems considering these difficult conditions.

So please enjoy at www.myspace.com/vertigoobserver.

Cheers!

The recording session on June 14, 15 with Cameron McKenzie was a very good experience. It was great to work with such a pro.

I still have to work on the design & the cover of the CD, but meanwhile please find here one of these new songs KTN2

You can also find one of these new songs on my MySpace page (www.myspace.com/timchesley): “Maybe One Day”

Cheers,

I hope you had some nice end of the year celebrations, and I’m happy to inform you that I have few gigs coming to give a fresh start to this brand new year.

MI CORAZON (a brand new “tequila bar”)

462 Lygon Street, East Brunswick

Saturday the 18th of January, from 5 to 7 PM, free entry.

Come enjoy a few tequilas in a brand new “tequila bar” + some nice drunken acoustic songs if you offer me some shots on the way, YES!!!

303 (with Sundown and/or Last Stand, The Imagists, Bury the Sound)

303 High Street, Northcote

Friday the 1rst of February, 8PM, $5

A night of festivity and foolery serving a board range of assorted delicacies. From ambient to explosive, the audience will be inundated with a collection of sounds to make your ears softly ring.

LE CHIC FROG Festival

week end of the 1rst & 2nd of March at “Le Chic Frog Festival” in Moonambel, north of Ballarat

Details of this first of its genre French Culture Festival in Victoria can be found at www.lechicfrogfestival.com

Hope to see you there or for a few beers to celebrate this New Year!!!