Party: d Henry Fenton + Mark Lucas

Party: d Henry Fenton + Mark Lucas

Take two singer-songwriters - one Australian living in LA, one Englishman living in Sydney.

D Henry Fenton is a singer-songwriter from Australia born into a musical family & currently resident in Los Angeles, California.
Fenton’s music blends Celtic, folk, pop, and rock, bringing to mind elites like Van Morrison, the Smiths, Neil Young, the Beatles, and Crowded House. He has just wrapped up his latest album, Turnin’ with engineer/producer, Steve Holroyd (Counting Crows/Tom Petty). He attributes the fuel for Turnin’ to a disillusioned marriage coupled with the struggles of living in Los Angeles. There is something cleansing that happens at the end of a relationship, and Turnin’ leads the listener on a journey back to the self. These tracks are the stuff of life, and Fenton capitalizes on this compelling interplay. The songs travel from traditional, acoustic guitar-folk to indie-rock with a hint of alternative country. Henry was lucky to have some wonderful musicians play on Turnin’: Jeff Young (Jackson Browne/Steely Dan) on piano and Hammond, Stuart Mathis (Wallflowers/Lucinda Williams) on guitar, Damien Steele, Scott (Todd Rundgren) on bass, Luke Herbert (Spooner Oldham/ Gillian Welch) on drums, and lastly Fenton on his guitar played the lion’s share of this recording.

Mark Lucas was born into a medical & military family & raised in boarding school & rural England.
Mark is likely best known locally as pbc Club President & venue booker, but behind him lies a trail carved from two decades & more of indie bands, & at the song-writing coal-face. With his eighth cd release in the pipeline, the story continues to unfold. In fact it's the narrative element of songwriting that draws Mark to the muse - folk / Americana / roots music, with a distinctly Australian take, tempered by a pop sensibility inspired by his youth hanging around the vibrant pub rock scene in mid to late '70's London.
“a near perfect musical setting for these distinctly Australian tales of restless souls, ghosts of the past, desert vistas and suburban angst.” - Kim Cheshire, Country Update Magazine

Invited: Damian Cunningham, Mindy Sotiri, Daniel Von Brews McCulloch, Edwina Margaret Fanny Lumsden, Steven J Spacetrout, Sharlene Charli Rainford, Mark A Moldre, Steve Shepherd, Mark Jessup, Tery Breen, Victoria Wilkinson, John Encarnacao, Maryanne Burton, Gareth Hugh Evans, Steve Hunter, Zane Banks, Greg Dimmock, Cardinal Myrtle, Toni Swain, Mark Oats, Bryan Estepa, Damon Quinn, Simon Morel, Claire Margaret Watts, Andrew Barnum, Andrew Williams, Ianto Ware, Karl Broadie, Ken Gooding, Demi Mitchell, Adam Pringle, Nick Payne, Ken Oath, Lyn Taylor, Louis De Silva, David Messer, Peter Doherty, Dan Stanley Freeman, Leroy Lee, Matt Morrison, Ken Murdoch, Vinny Ramone, Marcus Peter Holden, Doug Nairn, Jason Walker, Mark Young, Lilo Blyton, Alex Pademelon Johnson, Kristin Moore, Chris Familton, Craig Lyons, Fergus Furlong, Kane Dyson, Daniel Hopkins, Glenn Skarratt, Clare O'Meara, Vlasta Gunning, Nic Dalton, Bernie Hayes, Darren Moffatt, D Henry Fenton, Elizabeth Bryan, Charlie Chan, Emad Younan, Warren Fahey, Leyne Elbourne, Sue Andrews, Daniel Moore, Brett Hunt, Roberto De Freitas Young, Darren Cross, Amy Goodhew, Chris Huston, James Thomson, Zoe Jeanne Burrell, Michael Ward, Stuart Coupe, Michael Vidale, Helen Malti Chilman, Dennis Aubrey, Mike McClellan, Keith Armitage, Nick Kenyon, Luke Herbert, Suzy Connolly, Fiona Murphy McKinnon, Sam Shinazzi, Rose Carleo, Peter Skip Beaumont-Edmonds, Trish Peartt, Bronwyn Æther, Leonie McClure, John Francis Kennedy, Chris Mearns, Chunyu Zhang, Roland Kay-Smith, Craig Gee, Kholoud Alkayid, Tamlin Tregonning, Greg Matchett show more »