Edit history

Top up your myki card and come board the next Upfield line train with Jim Kane as it stops all stations to Moreland then travels express to somewhere deep in the recesses of his wandering, flighty mind…… Inspired by Sufjan Steven’s (ultimately doomed) ‘50 state project’, An Upfield Odyssey marks the first expedition of Jim’s somewhat humbler ’50 station project’, where he neglects basic housework duties and attempts to interpret his place in our universe from a variety of the ‘burbs that dot Melbourne’s Metropolitan train map. Each song on An Upfield Odyssey links to a zone 1 station on the Upfield line, as Jim details the ups and downs of a suburban human’s life during the first decade of the 21st millennium. Kane’s previous album, Trigger happy love (2009) was described as ‘troubadour pop’ and received acclaim from the Australian music media: ‘Jim Kane sounds like a songwriter from a different era, a man who possesses a great, emotive voice.” - Dom Alessio, Triple J. For the

Jim grew up in the south of Glasgow and migrated to Melbourne with his family when he was 15 years old. He initially coped with the ensuing homesickness by withdrawing into his own little world of pop music, particularly the music of his homeland, learning the songs of UK Indie acts such as the Smiths, The Pogues, the Stone Roses and the Clash. Over the past 15 years this passion has never waned, in fact it has developed to the point of near obsession. Countless hours have been spent filling tape after c90 tape with bits of melody, riffs and lyrical ideas. Acutely aware that tape doesn't last forever Jim painstakingly went through these tape boxes, edited the best stuff and fleshed them out into complete songs. The best of these were then played to local composer and arranger Neil Kelly (who has worked with the likes of Bo Diddley and David Byrne) and Neil agreed to work on an album with Jim. Being Anglo-Australian it is perhaps no accident that Jim's sound incorporates various