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Troubadour on tourMUSIC

Eric Bibb and Staffan Astner will play Darwin Entertainment Centre

HE WAS given his first guitar atseven, met Bob Dylan when he was11 and now at 59 has almost 20 stu-dio release CDs to his name.

Eric Bibb is one of the most like-able, gentle individuals you couldwish to speak to.

Ready to embark on a six-weekAustralian tour, he was happilybuilding cabinets for his home inHelsinki, Finland, when FridayFix caught up with him.

‘‘What’s the weather like overthere?’’ he said.

Eric remembers his first trip tothe Top End and the weathershock he copped.

‘‘I remember asking someone‘God, is it always this hot?’ ’’he said.

He recalls a midnight meetingwith Bob Dylan when he wasjust a child.

‘‘My Dad was having a showbizparty and I was a very impression-able 11-year-old who just wanted toplay guitar,’’ he said.

Bibb remembers Dylan comingin just after midnight.

‘‘He was the big thing at thetime. Candle in the Wind was allover the radio,’’ he said.

In his pyjamas, Bibb just sidledright up to Dylan and proceeded toquiz him on guitar playing.

‘‘He just told me to ‘keep it sim-ple, forget all that fancy stuff’,’’he said.

The American-born bluesmanstudied at Columbia Universitybriefly before moving to Paris

when he was 19. Now happily re-siding in Finland, he has teamedup with good friend and giftedguitarist Staffan Astner.

Their collaboration TroubadourLive is an album of beautifully dis-played acoustic finger picking,with Astner’s electric blues inter-woven.

The album is named as such be-

cause Bibb sees himself as a ‘‘self-accompanying Troubadour’’.

Included on the collaboration isa duet with Australia’s own coun-try music legend Troy Cassar-Daley. Bibb will bring Astner onthe six-week Australian tour andthe two will play Darwin Enter-tainment Centre’s Play House onFriday, April 1.

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Get down to Happy Yess to see Darwin’s own The Jigsaw Collective

Nopuzzle; a perfect fitLOVERS of high-quality live musicwould be well served heading downto Happy Yess tonight.

Jazz/fusion outfit The JigsawCollective is now one of Darwin’sslickest outfits since forming in mid2005. Band leader Jack Tinapple –also of gypsy/funk powerhouse TheNeo – said the group had not playedHappy Yess since November.

‘‘We’re really looking forward togetting into it on Friday,’’ he said.

The band has changed its line-upa few times since forming and Tina-pple said that worked perfectly withthe band’s name.

‘‘The Jigsaw Collective is allabout the pieces that fit together

that make the band what it is,’’ hesaid. He said the ‘‘collective’’ aspectderived from the fact that all mem-bers were multi-talented.

‘‘Everyone in the band is asongwriter and contributes lyrical-ly as well as playing their instru-ments,’’ he said. The boys will re-lease their first single, entitled JustDon’t Care Anymore, next monthand look forward to an EP releasemid-year.

The night kicks off at 9.30pm withDavid Spry and company.

The Jigsaw Collective will kick inabout 10.30pm.

The Jigsaw Collective@Happy Yess,

tonight, $5, 18+event.