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Kevin Mitchell

The Basement Birds Kav Temperley on Kevin Mitchell -

“It's really interesting for me having Kevin as part of this because growing up in Perth he is almost like an elder statesman. Jebediah were the first band to break out of Perth, in our lifetime. His songwriting has obviously gone to many different places and he seems to have this amazing ability to roll out these ditties. He writes quite differently, I always write with words, they happen with melody at the same time, whereas with Kev he'll just be like ‘de na na, de na na' which frees him up to have these endless melodies that are just rolling out. If you let him go he just comes up with more and more continuous melodies… then you have to knuckle him down to write words. All our voices sit in different places so vocally, as well, he brings something that no one else does.”

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Kevin Mitchell