Beautifully Mad News

Dear Friends ,
This year we have some  exciting gigs  for Beautifully Mad such as The COBARGO FOLK FESTIVAL 28th February- 2nd March

Beautifully Mad will be performing with our Band,
Bill Risby Piano
Hamosh Stuart Drums

Natalie Risby Double Bass

Lalo Risby as a guest performer on electric bass

We are performing Friday night 11:10 pm 

Saturday 10:10pm and Sunday 3:45pm 

There is an exceptional lineup of musicians this year

to buy tickets  https://cobargofolkfestival.com/tickets/

 

 

Sydney Friends we are performing for the MANLY FIG Music Club at Seaforth Bowling Club on Friday 28th March with the Beautifully Mad Band and guest artist
George Washingmachine on violin..  

 

Recently we have both become  involved in  a couple of ongoing creative projects that will come to fruition sometime in 2025 so stay tuned.
 

We'd like to thank our PATREONS for their generous support that helps us both to continue creating music and to all of you who have contributed to TIPJAR  over the years... thank you ! ​​

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Tony performing with The Andrew Strong Tour of Australia 2024

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Together performing at an unforgettable gig on the south coast of NSW, Beautifully Mad live @ Navigate Arts 2024

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Become a Patreon

As we sadly lamented a few years back, we won’t be making any new CDs, due to the fact that streaming has meant we earn virtually no income form our recorded music and people no longer buy CDs. If you enjoy our music and want us to keep recording music, we encourage you to become a Patreon, which has been a life saver for us to keep going. 

Here is the link https://www.patreon.com/beautifullymad

 

 

 

Tony has also released an hilarious book of short stories entitled.     Fishing for Music 

To Preview  Click here.

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Reviews:

"The Air Guitarist" may turn out to be one of my favorite stories ever...” -Janis Ian

"Got a road trip planned? Then we recommend you download the audio version of Tony King’s latest creation, Fishing for Music, for your listening pleasure.And if the road isn’t calling, but the couch is, you’d do just as well to flick through the print version of this little literary and audio gem.There isn’t much that musician, songwriter and multifaceted creator Tony King does that isn’t worth hearing.His most familiar incarnation is performing in the duet Beautifully Mad with partner Nina Vox –a.k.a. Kris Ralph – at venues across Australia and internationally.Whether it’s witty lyrics, virtuoso guitar, or disentangling the world’s woes over a beer, a session with King is rarely dull. The fella’s a yarn-spinner extraordinaire. It’s therefore little surprise that, between songwriting and playing gigs, the award-winning Australian troubadour taps out short stories, and they are mighty infectious mini-sagas indeed.Fishing for Music serves up a comical potpourri of tales that spring merrily from the ridiculously fertile imagination of a chap who has been around the block and seen a thing or two.With a musical thread running throughout the compilation, King spans history, the arts, politics, the news, literature, pop culture, cultural foibles, the eternally silly human condition…and, well, most the world as we know it – or would like to!He hops from quirky vignette to kooky fable like a hyperactive performing flea, and each story is entirely unique and entertaining.The book is available in hard copy as well as an audio edition, the latter being presented by King himself in a startling array of nuanced accents and vocal eccentricities.There’s the Scotsman in “Is the Bagpipe a Real Instrument”, the Aussie bushy in “Iron Bark Bob”, the drawling southerner in “The Last Blues Man”, the old coot rapper in “The Rapper Retirement Village,” the cockney east ender in “The Organ Grinder’s Monkey,” and on it goes.This vocal versatility is regularly intermixed with instrumentals to create the mood and set the scene, and it’s obvious King had a ball putting it all together.“It is a bunch of crazy and humorous short stories caught by using music as bait,” he says of his eclectic collection.“I’d say it is diversional therapy for people needing a laugh and distraction from this cruel world.“I have used music as bait to fish out the weird and whimsical characters of the music world.“These people are the bent coins I found stuck inside me, and I have finally poked them out with a pen,” he says.He sure has, and what an entertaining mob they are. Chuckles guaranteed, folks!"-Peter Rigby- thestarfish.com.au"

Tony King is one of Australia’s finest singer-songwriters, with a lateral and feverishly enquiring mind.Organically creative, the guitar grows out of his hands and the notes are harvested like so much sweet fruit- who better to write a book of delightfully quirky short stories about the weird and wonderful world of music than the quintessential muso’s musician?"-Jonathan Biggins  

"Tony King employs words as one would musical notes in these finely honed mini-sagas. His modifiers don’t dangle, they jangle as his pen dances between descants of Keith Jarrett humming free jazz to aliens,to ageing retired rap artists complaining of“hip-hoperations”.  A delightful collections of humoresque symphunnies from Mr King. These earworms for the eyes will stay with you long after the non-gender specific large-boned human sings.A major work in a minor font."- Paul Livingstone (AKA Flacco)

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