NEW ALBUM – OWEN CAMPBELL & THE COSMIC PEOPLE LIVE

The night before the LIVE ALBUM SHOW recording, in the early hours of the morning, I was on the verge of cancelling. I was startled awake at 2am by my partner as she was having some early contractions, the birth of our second son Harry was imminent! The due date was yesterday! Although it turned out to be a false alarm and Tarsh went back to sleep, I was sitting alone chewing my nails at 3am ready to call it off. What if the baby comes mid-gig? What if it comes as we’re sound checking? It all seemed too much of a risk and the uncertainty just too much. Needless to say, I didn’t sleep well at all.

My band, Matt Nightingale (Bass), Kayne Butler (Drums) along with special guest Tate Sheridan (Keys) all agreed to commit come hell or high water and if a baby happened to come they would happily bow out. A Cosmic commitment that produced a Cosmic result.

Oftentimes in the face of exhaustion and terrifying uncertainty, we can transcend to a higher level of consciousness.  This show was one of those moments in my humble little experience on this planet. Everything worked, every song marched forth as the greatest version of itself. The end of the night came in the blink of an eye and it was all in the can. A celebration of LIFE with all of its imperfections and uncertainties.

This is a LIVE collection of my favourite songs along with six new previously unreleased tracks. No overdubs, no musical edits, honest and raw.

Thanks to all the Cosmonauts that helped make it happen; Mick Starkey and Staff (The Stag and Hunter Hotel), Colin Abrahams (Live Engineer), Mitta Norath (Studio Engineer), Colin Wynne (Mastering), Abby Edwards (Management), Bec Lewis (Videography), Kayne Butler (Drums), Matt Nightingale (Bass/Backing Vocals) and Tate Sheridan (Keys).

Enjoy and love to you all!
Owen

NEW ALBUM – “ROLLING THUNDER OF LOVE”

“The Rolling Thunder Of Love”, unlike most of my albums, has come about through slow and gentle preparation. Totally independent, it has been a 2 year fermentation with the help of great musical friends/family and allies. Through trials and tribulations, drought and pouring rain we pulled together when we could and slowly built it up piece by piece. Most of the album was recorded at “Uplands Studio”, an isolated and picturesque location in the foothills of Cootamundra NSW. We laid down the guts of the album in some scorching +40C days in the late summer. We sweated it out half-naked with wet towels wrapped around our necks but knew there was something special happening, so we pushed on through.

It has many interweaving stories, the effects of fatherhood on a man’s mind, love, and the destruction of fanciful delusions to make way for a stronger and slower experience in life.

After so many attempts at getting there, I feel like this album is the musical heartland I have always been searching for.

Hope you all enjoy!

Owen