I could try to tell you what Jairay’s new single “Crash Land” is all about, but I don’t think I could do better than the random pubgoer quoted in the press release. He was overhead at a Jairay gig commenting his music is “like that folk-punk stuff, but not shit.”
No good sir, it’s not. He follows in the footsteps of guys like Billy Bragg and Joe Strummer, with the stripped-back feel of folk music giving a raw realness to his message.
“Death’s a fucking weird thing to witness and it made me feel really small when faced directly with it,” he said of the song’s inspiration. “I decided to just let go of the life I was living, grow my hair, quit my job and just drive away and be someone new and someone I liked more ”
In suitably low-key fashion, Jairay will launch the single with a show in his Brisbane kitchen tomorrow night. Click attending on the Facebook event for the address!