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Howard Eynon on the cult life of 'So What If I'm Standing in Apricot Jam'

Howard Eynon

Australian singer-songwriter Howard Eynon, whose 1974 acid-folk cult classic So What If I'm Standing in Apricot Jam has lived a quiet second life among collectors, sits down with Psychedelic Baby Magazine for a career-spanning interview. Recorded at Hobart's Spectangle Studios with engineer Nick Armstrong, the album blends twelve-string guitar in a homemade tuning with viola, flute and everyday surrealism — songs about village hills, dairy farms and the oddities of a travelling life. Largely ignored on release, the record resurfaced via Buttercup Records in Australia and Earth Recordings (Fire Records' reissue imprint) internationally, bringing Eynon's idiosyncratic voice back into circulation. The conversation traces his path from a Tasmanian dairy farm through RAAF pilot training, Melbourne's New Faces talent show victory, theatre work with Geoffrey Rush and Bille Brown, and a stint in Mad Max. Eynon reflects on the album's accidental poetry, the influence of radio comedy and his father's unconventional guitar tuning, and the psychedelic weekends at "the farm" outside Brisbane where boundaries dissolved. A reissue that rewards patience with a genuinely singular catalogue entry.

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