Notes from Robyn on Patreon in 2020.
I was asked to contribute a song for the movie JULIET, NAKED, and wound up writing a whole clutch: in the end the music supervisor chose "Sunday Never Comes", which Ethan Hawke sings so fetchingly in the film. This was way back in 2017, when the worst thing most people could imagine was 2016; writing these songs was, for me, a temporary way out of the Trump slump. This demo was recorded at Magnetic Studios by John Little, and feature the harmonies, percussion and keyboard of Mr Ryan Brewer, a key figure in the East Nashville Australian diaspora.
“The End of Everything You Know” is a co-write with Emma Swift: she started the song and I finished it. It seems to be a meditation on the inevitable collapse of everything, relationships especially. Yes, Harold - there is nod to David Bowie in there, which was not sanctioned by Ms Swift. Three years on, I’m happy to say Emma and I are still together - more so than ever since the quarantine began...