Edit history

Adelaide-based ‘singer/storyteller’ Fergus Maximus has a captivating voice and a warm, amiable stage-persona honed over many years of performance. The singer/saxophonist has emerged as an engaging storyteller whose melodic pop/rock songs encompass all the important things—love, loss, mistakes, surprises and people’s astonishing capacity to miscommunicate—with wit, intelligence and fun. After approximately forever, he has finally released his debut studio album 'Restless Soles'. The album is an anthology of short stories about people with itchy feet and the road in their eyes; about love, loss and memory and the things we hold on to. Musically, the album is really varied. There are bouncy pop things, some soulful tracks with a horn section and gospel-inspired backing vocals, some rowdy pop/rock songs, a couple of sparse ballads and some things with strings including one track simply backed by a string quartet. The album was recorded at Wizard Tone Studios in Adelaide and launched on