Also, it wasn’t just me dealing with that, it was the whole band.

He was a fellow who didn’t drink or smoke and it made no sense to anyone it was a bowling ball from the left of centre. “It was also a very different kind of death: it was random. “I was very conscious of not saying, ‘And now I’m sitting here feeling very sad.’ “I’m not letting someone that wonderful go without putting down what we loved about him and the good times that we had,” Freedman says. They are packed with unalloyed joy and a sense of the world of a touring band and crew who lived in each other’s pockets for weeks or months or years on end. Quixotically, Sancho is anything but glum: the title track and Sancho In Love are filled with in-jokes, character assessments and a list of Weaver’s favourite things. If any record could justify a set of sad songs about blokes it would be this new Whitlams album, which is named after and features two songs about longtime tour manager and live sound mixer Greg Weaver, who died suddenly of a heart attack in May 2019.Ī constant in the Whitlams camp since Eternal Nightcap, Weaver was dubbed by Freedman: the Sancho to his “impractical, impetuous, disorderly” Don Quixote. Warwick produced re-mixes for The Lab and The Infidels.Stevie Plunder, Andy Lewis and Tim Freedman in 1992. He has also recorded with Max Sharam and Diana Anaid, (where he met his future Whitlams cohorts, Jak Housden and Terepai Richmond).

Since then, Warwick has gone on to record and tour with Smash Mac Mac, Filthy Children (with Greg Jordan, Tony Buck and Linda Patching), The Infidels, Jan Hellriegel (NZ), Peggy Van Zalm, The Lab, Christine Anu and Paul Mac, and as a solo artist under the name Warwick Factor.

He joined and the band moved to Sydney in 1984. Warwick studied at the Adelaide School of Audio Engineering in 1983, where he met Hamish Marr and Rappo, two musicians from Adelaide band 'These Cars Collide', who were looking for a bassist. After winning their heat but then being disqualified for being ineligible for that particular heat, they were asked to perform in the final as a non competing opening act at Adelaide Town Hall. They played high school shows, local clubs and entered Hoadley's Battle of the Sounds, where they were the youngest entrants. Encouraged by his parents to take up guitar at age 11, he studied music for 2 years and formed his first band, 'Virginia Wolfe' with friends from the same area. Warwick was born near Manchester, England, and emigrated to South Australia with his family in 1966.

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