An article about Mark Seymour covering Leonardo’s Bride for Mushroom 50th anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n
Author:\u00a0 Paul Cashmere, Noise11.<\/p>\n
Date: 4 August 2023.<\/p>\n
Original URL: https:\/\/www.noise11.com\/news\/mark-seymour-covers-leonardos-bride-for-mushroom-50th-20230804<\/p>\n
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Mark Seymour has covered the Leonardo\u2019s Bride hit \u2018Only When I\u2019m Sleeping\u2019 as part of the celebration of Mushroom Records 50 years.<\/p>\n
Mark says, \u201cThe great difficulty for me was to get the tone right. Abby (Dobson) has a character voice. She brings everything to the table; what I call real soul. The crack, the quaver and the hurt \u2026 Initially, I tried to translate, to soften, to bring my voice to the same place. To try to sound like Abby. This was a mistake. To do a cover well, authenticity lies in the capacity to live inside your own condition as you sing someone else\u2019s words, which isn\u2019t something I often do. To own the song. To draw on my own inherent character. To sing proudly with truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018Only When I\u2019m Sleeping\u2019 reached no. 4 in Australia for Leonardo\u2019s Bride in 1997. The song was written by guitarist Dean Manning after an argument with Abby. \u201cMichael Gudinski and his team at Mushroom Records and Mushroom Publishing changed the course of my life,\u201d Abby says. \u201cMichael and Mushroom backed us all the way. He was always so sweet to me, and always told me I was special.\u201d<\/p>\n
The movie \u2018Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story\u2019 will premiere during the Melbourne International Film Festival in August.<\/p>\n
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An article about Mark Seymour covering Leonardo’s Bride for Mushroom 50th anniversary celebrations. Author:\u00a0 Paul Cashmere, Noise11. Date: 4 August 2023. Original URL: https:\/\/www.noise11.com\/news\/mark-seymour-covers-leonardos-bride-for-mushroom-50th-20230804 Article Text Mark Seymour has covered the Leonardo\u2019s Bride hit \u2018Only When I\u2019m Sleeping\u2019 as part of the celebration of Mushroom Records 50 years. Mark says, \u201cThe great difficulty for more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9456,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12708","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5xhjD-3iY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanfrailty.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanfrailty.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanfrailty.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanfrailty.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanfrailty.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/humanfrailty.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12713,"href":"https:\/\/humanfrailty.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12708\/revisions\/12713"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanfrailty.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanfrailty.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}