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©Debbie Kruger, Bob King, Karena Wynn-Moylan and others
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In August 2005 Songwriters Speak had two launch events – a music industry party in Sydney and a literary festival launch with musical performances in Byron Bay.
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At the Sydney book launch, L-R: Glenn Shorrock, Don Walker, Sharon O'Neill, Johanna Pigott,
Debbie Kruger, Todd Hunter, Martin Plaza, Greedy Smith, Iva Davies, Jim Keays and Brian Cadd.
Also present but not in photo were Richard Clapton and Garth Porter
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| Glenn and Jo Shorrock generously offered their home for the Sydney launch, which took place on Tuesday 2 August, 2005, and what a night it was! Glenn gave the official launch speech to a crowd of around 90 invited guests, including songwriters, music publishers, record company execs, media and good friends. |
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Click on the thumbnails to see larger versions of photos from the night, most of which were taken by the wonderful Bob King, photographer supremo.
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Author and book
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Author and book
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Books for sale
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Helen Bateman & Jayne Denshire of Limelight Press with their author
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Debbie and Jo Shorrock
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Debbie with Glenn and Jo Shorrock
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Debbie with Jim Keays
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Jim, Debbie, Glenn
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Peter Hebbes and Debbie
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Rachel Ward with Glenn
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Glenn Shorrock and Glenn A Baker
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Michael Bald and Debbie
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Debbie and Greedy Smith
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Paul O'Gorman, Debbie, John Kovac
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Debbie, Darelle White, Glenn Shorrock
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Tania Buffin, Simon Savage and Debbie
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Debbie with Todd Hunter & Johanna Pigott
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Damien Trotter and Debbie
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Angela Bishop and Debbie
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Paula Kruger and her sister the author
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Jo Shorrock, Angela Bishop and guests
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Angela, Jo, Todd, Johanna and guests
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Angela Bishop and Billy Birmingham
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Billy and Debbie
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Debbie with Alan Mansfield & Sharon O'Neill
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Richard Wilkins, Alan, Sharon and Debbie
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Debbie with Kate Murphy and Martin Plaza
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Kate and Martin with Dickie and Glenn
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David White, Debbie, Gill Robert
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Barry Bissell, Nick Bennett and Billy
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Amanda Pelman, Brian Cadd, Billy Birmingham
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Glenn A Baker and the Mighty Whitey
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Angela Bishop with Jim Keays
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Martin & Greedy
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Martin & Greedy
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Debbie does News
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Sharon O'Neill, Debbie, Alan Mansfield
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Sharon and Debbie
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Sharon and Alan
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Glenn Shorrock, Iva Davies, Jim Keays
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Iva and Debbie
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Don Walker and Debbie
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Jim and Don
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Debbie and Richard Clapton
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Greedy Smith, Brian Cadd, Amanda Pelman
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Garth Porter and Debbie
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Debbie and Skip Beaumont-Edmonds
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Debbie and Glenn A Baker
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Bob King and Debbie
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Guests
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Andrew Stutchbury, Ricky Dukes, Melinda Braun
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Tracy Cahn and Debbie
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Glenn launches book
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Glenn speaks
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Appreciative and emotional author
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Watchful author
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Attentive guests
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Speech-giving author
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Photo opportunity
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Andrew Stutchbury, Debbie, Peter Dixon
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Agent supreme, Rachel Skinner with client
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Rachel and Debbie
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Signing books
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After the Sydney launch it was straight up to Byron Bay to participate in some panels as a guest of the Byron Bay Writers Festival. There we celebrated the literary launch of Songwriters Speak. Rob Hirst (of Midnight Oil and elsewhere) gave a warm and heartfelt speech and he had a sing, as did Deborah Conway and Willy Zygier. We were joined by other writers, festival attendees and a bunch of my old Byron friends. You can find out more about the festival by clicking the logo on the left. |
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| To hear an excerpt from my panel on "Writing about the Music Scene" with Rob Hirst and Andrew Stafford, click here. (7.4 MB MP3 file) |
| To visually experience some of the festive event, click on the thumbnails to see bigger pictures. |
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