Danny Widdicombe

Three time ARIA Award nominee Danny Widdicombe, 

and three time Qld Music Award finalist Dana Gehrman 

need your help to get their new TRACKS on WAX!

What happens when two musicians from the same town, with a lot of the same friends, both have new albums being released in the same month and they both need the same money to press vinyl???

In this case, we decided to pool our resources, create a new label (Futurfonic), and help each other reach our goals.

Both our albums are ready to go and are completely self-funded. We just need your help to make our aural fixations a physical reality. We need your help to get our tracks on wax!

We’re both part of the new Brisbane music collective called ‘Futurfonic’, which also includes Danny’s band The Honey Sliders, multi award winning instrumental trio Trichotomy, the graphic art of Borley Design, and the audio production skills of Yanto Browning from Pacific Reach. Both our albums are due to be released in July 2019 through Futurfonic, essentially launching a new label with the simultaneous release of two new, original albums out of Brisbane, Qld.

You can buy either or both of our albums on vinyl, cd or digital download, have either one of us come play at your place for a house concert with our bands, get some music lessons from the Trichotomy guys,  or we’ll come play your house party together as a duo. There are tickets to our listening party available, you can order prints of Danny’s moon and eclipse pictures, or a couple of guitar pedals that Dana’s dad makes. Or you can simply be a philanthropic hero by paying for the manufacturing for both our vinyl!

Dana Gehrman - ‘Find a Way’ 

Dana’s debut album ‘Find a Way’ was co-produced and co-written with Danny Widdicombe. The band fleshing out the tracks are Danny’s regular jook-joint band called The Honey Sliders, featuring Dan Mansfield, Chris ‘Bos’ Bosley and Ben Carstens. Along with Danny and the Honey Sliders are guest appearances from Tim Rogers, Dave Orr, Abbie Cardwell, and a horn section. The album was recorded live over three solid days in Airlock Studios (owned by Ian Haug from Powderfinger / The Church) with engineering and mixing by Yanto Browning (Pacific Reach). These eleven tracks sound fresh in their respectfully anachronistic style. This is a seventies groove based good time record.

After Tim Rogers appeared on the Widdicombe penned title track, ‘Find a Way’, he later asked Dana to support his national tour ‘The Endless Cycle of Maintenance’. Since then, there has been a flurry of activity in the Dana Gehrman camp, constantly playing up and down the east coast to rapt audiences who appreciate her dedication to the retro sound that was so formative for her love of music.

Dana will be touring to launch her debut album through August. Stay tuned for more info.

Danny Widdicombe and Trichotomy – ‘Between the Lines’

In 2018, Danny had a new album of songs written that didn’t suit either of his bands, The Wilson Pickers, or the Honey Sliders. Looking left of field, he asked his mate Sean from the instrumental trio Trichotomy to collaborate and record these new tunes. Trichotomy are a multi award winning, instrumental, experimental trio featuring Sean Foran, John Parker and Samuel Vincent. Danny’s songs and Trichotomy’s musical instincts were an immediate and satisfying confluence of musical styles

The end result from the recording was the new album called ‘Between the Lines’. Ten tracks including two instrumentals. The recordings were augmented by Danny playing his beautiful pedal steel, Kristin Berardi and Danny’s daughter India Widdicombe on backing vocals, along with Luke ‘Fiddleboy’ Moller on strings and Dan Mansfield on Hammond. This album is sounding lush!

You can watch this album played live in its entirety as a part of the 2019 Queensland Music Festival.

Thurs 11th July:            Dust Temple, Currumbin

Sat 13th July :               Old Museum, Brisbane

Sat 20th July :               Imperial Hotel, Eumundi

Futurfonic

Futurfonic is a collective of musically minded people that love making new sounds that are influenced by their favourite music from the past. The Futurfonic team comprises of specialist song writers, an inhouse graphic designer, an audio designer and some of the best musicians in Brisbane.

You can catch The Honey Sliders and Tim Rogers playing The Rolling Stones’ classic album ‘Let it Bleed’ in its entirety in early December through south east Qld.

Both Danny and Dana’s albums will be the first albums off the rank for this new collective / label. But we need your help….

Where You Come In

This is where you, my learned reader, come in. You have the opportunity to help these dedicated artisans turn their recordings into hot, black, delicious, long playing, wax records. You can buy either or both of their albums on vinyl, cd or digital download, or have either one of them come to your place for a house concert, or they’ll come play your house party together. You can order prints of Danny’s moon and eclipse pictures, get some music lessons from the Trichotomy guys, or a couple of guitar pedals that Dana’s dad makes. If you’re feeling philanthropic, you can even simply pay the full cost of our vinyl manufacturing and receive eternal gratitude, an original song dedicated to you along with the joint wax pack and free tickets to any concert that Futurfonic put on – including all the launch shows by Danny, Trichotomy and Dana, as well as the Let it Bleed shows with Tim Rogers and The Honey Sliders.

Without art, life is just an endless, boring road we only stop on, to pay bills and taxes. As you know, music only exists when it is played. You can’t hang music on a wall. Once that last note is played, it can only remain in your memory. If you decide to support these dedicated artisans, you can access their heartfelt songs any time you like!

For more info on Dana Gehrman click HERE

For more info on Danny Widdicombe, click HERE

For more info on Trichotomy, click HERE

©Futufonic 2019

Target overflow:

Any money raised beyond our target will go toward:

• Publicity for the individual records
• Touring of the records
• Printing CD's for both artists