Julitha Ryan
We are very excited to have our very first musical performance live in Castaway Studios by the wonderful Julitha Ryan. Julitha performs a piece written exclusively for MTAW inspired by listener supplied creative prompts of Minder, 1234 123 and Everybody Thinks You're Dancing. Julitha also performs a brand new yet be released piece from an upcoming release called Fire and Ice in collaboration with Penny Ikinger.Sean starts off the show with a poem called Wake Me Up With A Kiss. The poem was originally written as a commission to respond to a mural painted in East St Kilda. He then went on to write and record the poem with Sean M Whelan & The Mime Set, Sean's first poetry and music collaboration. You can here more of Sean M Whelan & The Mime and purchase recordings right here.For the Whelan and Stealin' segment Sean reads a poem by Philip Norton his book Everything Must Go. Julitha reads a poem by her sister Gig Ryan from her book Selected Works.WOW - IT'S THE WORLD OF WHELAN UPDATES. Aug 14th - Night Heron Readings. Sean will be featuring along side Waffle Irongirl at the Night Heron Bar on the Tues 14th August. Aug 30th - As part of the Melbourne Writers Festival, Liner Notes Live presents Nirvana's Nevermind: A literary cabaret. Thornbury Theatre. Sean is both co-producing the show and performing an original piece detailing his real life encounter with Kurt Cobain in Kings Cross, Sydney in 1992. Tickets available here from the Melbourne Writers Festival.More Than a Whelan websiteRecorded by Derek Myers at [Castaway Studios][13], Collingwood, Australia. insta: [@castaway_studios][14] [13]: http://castawaystudios.com.au [14]: https://www.instagram.com/castaway_studios/