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With an Academy Award for best actor on his mantlepiece, Russell Crowe has enjoyed rather more success with his movie career than he has in the charts. But the Aussie actor, whose band 30 Odd Foot Of Grunts got a mixed reception from the critics, has now decided to follow in the footsteps of his Gladiator character by going solo.
The performer seems to share Maximus' self-confidence, too, because he says his first single, Raewyn, is sure to make an impression. "It's the only song I've written that has made both men and women cry, think, and call their parents – usually in that order," he reveals. "I have e-mails from Sting and Billy Bragg, two of my writing heroes, that give testament to the quiet power of the song."
In a message posted on the defunct band's website, Russell explains the group had simply run its creative course. "What you possibly won’t be pleased about, nor understand fully until you hear this record, is that TOFOG would seem to have dissolved/evolved,” he writes.
“While that holds certain disappointments, they pale in comparison to the joy of writing unrestricted, of talking from my heart and mind simultaneously about things that are important to me now, right now, in this time of my life, not when I was younger or dare I say it less world-weary/wary, but now, as a 41-year-old father/husband/lover/man."
Russell will be releasing an album of his tunes, which he promises will be "fresh, revelatory and graceful", on the internet next month. |
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