THE LARRIKINS
Between recording sessions for ‘A Likeness of You’, Dan began touring with Jen Anderson (The Black Sorrows/WPA) and Dave Evans (The Band Who Knew Too Much) as a singer/instrumentalist in ‘The Larrikins’, a trio that played live Jen’s soundtrack for the Australian silent film, The Sentimental Bloke.
Directed by Raymond Longford in Sydney in 1919, The Sentimental Bloke is one of the world’s oldest surviving silent feature-films.
The Larrikins‘ instrumentation includes Jen Anderson on violin, mandolin, tin whistle and vocals; Dave Evans on piano and piano accordion; and Dan on guitar, mandolin and vocals.
In 2005 the film played in Venice and London. In 2006, the film toured to the US (including the Telluride Film Festival), Canada and Japan. The Larrikins also played at the inaugural Chungmuro Film Festival in South Korea.
Recent performances by the Larrikins of The Sentimental Bloke include a feature season at ACMI in Melbourne in 2022.
More information about performances/bookings of the The Sentimental Bloke are available on Jen Anderson’s site here.