Archive for May, 2009

Seven weeks at #1!

Posted on May 26th, 2009 by troy | Comments Off

Big Big Love is celebrating 7 weeks at #1 on the Top 30 Country Tracks Chart. The album I Love This Place holds the #2 position on the ARIA Country Chart, behind Keith Urban, a position it has held since release.
The second single Sing About This Countryis at radio and CMC next week. You can view shots from the video shoot in the gallery.
Troy has commenced his I Love This Place tour, go to the tour dates to find out when he is in a town near you.

Samson and Delilah wins at Cannes Film Festival

Posted on May 26th, 2009 by troy | Comments Off

ABORIGINAL director Warwick Thornton’s Samson and Delilah, a tale of young love in a troubled indigenous community, was awarded the Camera d’Or first film prize at the Cannes festival….May 25th 2009

Thornton’s feature takes an unflinching look at the problems facing Australia’s remote Aboriginal communities: violence, substance abuse and poverty.
Shot in a derelict Aboriginal community near Alice Springs, it follows the slow, shy courtship between a boy who spends his time sniffing petrol and lost in music, and a girl forced to care for her ailing grandmother.

His ability to connect us to these wayward teens across cultural boundaries and without the use of dialogue but with music is testament to his skill as a storyteller. It is also testament to how strong this soundtrack is and one of the most moving parts in the movie features Troy Cassar-Daley’s version of Night Blindness.

The movie is being screened at selected theatres throughout Australia and you can purchase the soundtrack for Samson and Delilah or Troy’s version of night Blindness is on his album Long Way Home available on Liberation music/ITunes.

Troy’s feature interview on Nu Country