I saw Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu playing live with The Saltwater Band in Bachelor, NT in 2000. Tiny gig in the recreation ground on a make-shift stage with a generator chugging in the background. A couple of tourists and a few white locals and aboriginal families with lots of dancing kids. We bought their CD, a sort of fusion of reggae, funk and rock and roll with extra didgeridoo. He had a strange and pure sounding voice that stuck in the memory and the fact he was blind from birth and played a right handed guitar left-handed and upside down.
Years later I was channel flicking one evening and there he was on Later with Jules Holland looking and sounding exactly how I remembered him. Now sadly deceased at the age of 46.
Something a little different and, as was mostly the case back in the day, a more enjoyable BBC Session version to that as may be found on the album/single:
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