Tim Freedman

Tim Freedman strips back his Whitlams repertoire and delivers classics like “No Aphrodisiac” and “Blow Up the Pokies” from the piano, with help from acclaimed pedal steel and guitar player Ollie Thorpe, who has been touring with Freedman in the Whitlams’ alt-country offshoot, The Whitlams Black Stump Band, whose single “The Day John Sattler Broke His Jaw” has been on the Australian Country Music charts for months.

The Daily Telegraph wrote of a recent solo show at Sydney’s City Recital Hall, “The tall and gangly front man charmed and cajoled his 600-strong audience with all the debonair flair of a Bryan Ferry….The stripped back accompaniment of the piano highlighted just how cleverly constructed his lyrics are – they sound so uncontrived, which is hellish difficult to do as any would-be songwriter will tell you.” (Steve Moffatt).