West Australian musician Simon Kelly was recentley spotted eating a banana pancake almost half an hour after the breakfast menu had finished. When questioned about the incident Kelly replied “I was hungry and I really like banana pancakes”.
Kelly rose to fame in 2006 when his song Train was used to advertise the WAM Song Of The Year competition in an ad break of The Simpsons. Kelly has since released 6 critically acclaimed studio albums, licenced 10 songs to US prime time television shows, signed to a Japanese record label and gained online notoriety after releasing the only cat video in the history of YouTube to attract less than 100 views.
In 2015 however, a serious bout of existential angst (the terrible malaise that afflicts all those who have too much of anything), saw Kelly disappear from public life. Where once he had believed a musicians job was to channel the divine poetry of the universe, he now began to realise that this was a delusion created by the ego, masking the fact that performing is a selfish plot to win the affection of strangers and momentarily silence the incessant howl of the insecure monkey mind. In fact, a musician was actually little more than an underpaid and overworked liquor salesperson, hired by pubs to persuade the masses to spend their hard earned dollars over the bar.
Kelly grew increasingly disheartened as he realised that the life of a touring musician has more in common with Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, than it does with Jack Kerouac in On The Road. This dark night of the soul led Simon to the Peruvian jungles where a local Shaman, in the form of a mighty Jaguar, looked him in the eyes and explained to him (telepathically) that the truth, as always, was somewhere in the middle. Armed with fresh knowledge and the renewed sense of aliveness that often results from a near death experience, Simon returned to his home town of Perth, took a deep breath and pressed the record button one more time.
