The coolest musical collaboration of 2016 is blasting into space and time from their Wallaga Lake home.
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Luke Ferguson has teamed up with his eight-year-old son Elliot to create Battlebird, the galaxy’s finest time-travelling, space-hopping, pop-rocking kids band.
Named after their Space-Chicken2000 time machine, Battlebird is manned by Lucky Luke , his side-kick son The Kid and their trusty robot DJ Scooter.
They have just released their debut album, Life is Good, and are holding a free children’s concert at Club Narooma later this month as part of the River of Art Festival.
However, it’s the backstory to this collaboration that makes Battlebird all the sweeter.
Two years ago at age six, Elliott was struggling with inherent shyness and dad Luke (who’d previously been in several bands and supported the Beastie Boys), found creating music was the key to unlocking Elliott’s confidence.
“Elliott was struggling a little bit at his new school and I found it pretty heartbreaking,” Ferguson said.
“I had a feeling music may bring him out of his shell as it did for me when I was younger so we started goofing around in the garage writing music, making video clips on an iPhone and an old MacBook and before I knew it we’d pressed a handful of EPs and performed live at the local Moruya Arts Festival in front of 200 people with Elliott’s classmates joining us on stage.”
Their song Ho Ho Ho Let’s Go featured on the ABC Kids Christmas album Volume 2, and their debut album Life is Good launched in March.
Battlebird is set to blast the airwaves past and present with its very unique sugar-rush style of Intergalactic boomboxpop
The CD also comes with a five track DVD.
Battlebird plays at Club Narooma on May 22 from 2pm. Free entry.
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