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Staff Writer

To celebrate the release of his new album with The Great Escape, Christopher Coleman takes us behind the scenes of 'The Great Tasmanian Escape'.

Petersham Lament

Jesse Bird served with the Australian Army in Afghanistan, came back broken. This album is not factual of his experiences returning home but are my musings upon 'breaking point'. I came to that we’re all just five bad sleeps away from it.


Beaumaris Zoo

Fixation. Hope. Determination. Go, go, go. Alone not lonely? An empowered unravelling.


New Norfolk

Not far up the river from where his plan to find the thylacine is hatched. Coffee. Black swans.


Queenstown Crows

Cross the bridge, follow the sun and by day's end you’ll find among other things a footy ground with gravel in lieu of grass. The weather won’t permit growth of too much at all and the mining doesn’t help. Tragedy hit the town when a shaft collapsed and two miners were considered gone. They survived but not so the mine, it shut down and then was forever limited in its operations. The town was nearly destroyed by that and so, the Queenstown Crows, a recently languishing club, united the town with a premiership win in god knows how long.


Penna

Jesse got back down south, somehow, and got himself a caravan in Shark Point Road. It’s namesake is in honour of the ‘defenders' of the now Coal River, where convicts would need to cross to escape further north.


Amelia

Hope here. Amelia has been around with him long enough to inspire his rising with the sun, his imagining of life beyond two or three decades and the successful nudge to put down his drink.


Paloona

He takes work on a power station up in the north west. Lots of driving, lots of time away from his wife and daughter. More and more visions of the horrors that his ancestors cast upon the palawa and pakana people. 


Jesse

Ten years on. $5.20 in his bank account. In the end, that’s how we looked after him.


Fingal Tiers (Final Tears)

There’s not much more to say here, didn’t surprise anybody. Shell shocked the lot of us forever though.

10. Launceston (The Sun Barely Hit Your Side Of The Town) Feat. Rowie Wise

If the sun can’t get a glimpse of you, do you have a chance? Can you blame the valley you fell down rendering you disabled? Blame yourself for not looking where you were going? Your family for not teaching you how to watch out? I blame no one, not 'Jesse', not his parents, not the ones who many deem qualified to take responsibility. 

String me five good night sleeps together before you choose to check out.