Kim Beales
Singer - Songwriter / Multi - Instrumentalist / ‘Tamas Wells’ / North Fitzroy Roecords
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This week’s guest on the podcast is Kim Beales, a talented singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
Kim started his day recording at Pughouse Studios in Melbourne, tracking drums, acoustic guitar, and vocals for his latest album. It was a fun morning recording drums for his latest project, and a relaxing afternoon having a chat over a cup of tea with Kim on the podcast.
We cover a lot of ground, from discussing his 2023 album Nine Portraits, to concepts of life, purpose, fulfilment, and a love of music and connection.
Kim was also just back from a tour to China and Japan with artist Tamas Wells, both as a solo act performing his songs on a telecaster, and then with the band, playing guitar, vocals and his new Hofner bass. Kim shares his experience performing music with his friends across the globe, signing autographs, journaling, inhabiting the song, and his love for family, songwriting and the shared experience of music.
This is a lovely conversation with a lovely human. It’s interesting to hear Kim’s adventures with music across the years, from the tough music teacher swearing and hitting his hands as a young piano student, to moving at 15 and starting to play gigs at venues across Melbourne, and most recently the international tours.
Kim Beales is an Australian singer-songwriter, currently living in Tasmania, and is also a co-founder of Melbourne music label, North Fitzroy Records.
In 2023, Kim released ‘Nine Portraits’, which features narrative songs inspired by characters from life, literature, and film. This release is accompanied by a series of line drawings, each a unique portrait representing a song. Through their stories and conversations Kim explores universal themes of friendship, desire, life, death and rock and roll.
Kim’s earlier works include “Tambourine Sky”, a vibrant and uplifting record Inspired by artists of the sixties and integrating indie pop sounds. And more recently, Kim has been working on a follow up to “Nine Portraits” developing material both at home and abroad, during a time of long service leave.
Special shoutouts in this episode include Tamas Wells, Niko Shauble (yes, another recent podcast guest - checkout episode 25!) from Pughouse Studios, Jefry Yikwa, and Pete Carolane (episode 7), who mixed “Nine Portraits”.
The conversation is now available on all streaming platforms, YouTube and our website.
P.S. At the end, I asked Kim where he’d like to perform. He said later, “By that point in the interview my brain was going to fuzz! I’d just got to play a set at the Melbourne Recital Centre the night before (hard to beat that venue). Here in Tassie I’d like to do a gig someday at the Hedberg (a beautiful little theatre with a great sound).
Listen to find out more.
Checkout Kim Beales’ album ‘Nine Portraits’
Available on all major streaming platforms
You can contact Kim through his Record Label: northfitzroyrecords.com.au
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