Rich Webb reflects on his recent accolades
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10.07.2019

Rich Webb reflects on his recent accolades

You recently took home the Best Alt-Country Single and Best Alt-Country Album at the 2019 Independent Music Awards in New York. Was this a surprise at all?

Yes it was. Not that I don’t rate our album Le Rayon Vert – I love it and reckon it totally deserves it – but winning stuff is not my usual style. Losing it somewhere is more par for the course. But I did lose a guitar between Ballarat and here a while ago and it was returned to me by a nun, so maybe that was a sign. I sent flowers.

Did you get over to New York for the awards?

Unfortunately not. I reckon I would be still over there celebrating if I had.

How will these awards benefit your music moving forward?

Not sure yet, but I’m about to find out. Hopefully a few people will find a little more time for it than otherwise. It’s also going to mean a big red sticker on the front of the album which I found out the other day is called a ‘hype sticker’. Totally appropriate.    

You’ve also just capped off a 15-date tour of Germany. How’d that go?

Brilliantly. I’ve been going there regularly for a while now and it’s a fine place to play. We usually go to the UK, France and the Netherlands too but this time there was enough happening in Germany and Switzerland to make it work without killing ourselves at 200 km/h on the autobahn every day. We’ve had good support over there, I feel lucky to be able to do it.

You guys are playing an arvo show at The Old Bar coming up. Are there any surprises in store?

We’ll certainly be playing all the tracks from the award-winning album, and others of fine note and heritage. We’re also going to be joined by the super seven-piece contemporary funk band Speakeasy, with good mate Steve Bourke on drums.

Rich Webb hits The Old Bar on Saturday July 27 from 3pm with free entry. Keep track of what Webb is up to via his website, rich-webb.com.