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Brisbane QLD

Skritch Forty years in Australian independent music leaves marks. For Brisbane musician Richard 'Skritch' Needham, those marks include stints in and alongside some of the most celebrated acts the country has produced — The Long Johns, Mary Trembles, Gota Cola, Broken Head, The Beasts of Bourbon, The Cruel Sea, Tex Perkins' Dark Horses, Regurgitator, Powderfinger, and many others. A career that began in the mid-80s with youthful angst and never really stopped: touring, recording, singing, playing guitar, bass, drums and whatever else was needed — writing his own songs, backing others, producing, mixing, tour managing, working across everything from short films to TV advertising. Then, something different. His solo recordings are not band recordings. They are not collaborations. They are something made entirely alone — every instrument, every layer, every decision — in a process that begins with a drum beat and follows wherever it leads. Intimate, unhurried, and made without an audien