The coolest musical collaboration of 2016 is blasting into space and time from their Wallaga Lake home.
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Luke “Lucky Luke” Ferguson has teamed up with his eight-year-old son Elliot “The Kid” to create Battlebird, the galaxy’s finest time-travelling, space-hopping, pop-rocking kids band.
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 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.”
Battlebird plays at Club Narooma on May 22 from 2pm. Free entry.