You can find me all over the place. But here’s some good ones to start…
Since June 2022 the each song from my EP ‘freckles’ has gradually arrived. I’m beyond happy to share them with you. Here’s me talking about it in third person.
For anyone who has ever been and gone in love, Samuel Fairbank’s sophomore EP ‘freckles’ speaks. Aloneness, euphoria, heartache, learning to forget, the latitude of young love’s feelings are poured out across five boyishly honest tracks. Recorded with Garrett Kato near Byron Bay between 2020 and 2022, it grows from Sam’s debut EP ‘Growing Out of You’ (2017) with textures and meanings that deepen his stance as a story-teller and blossoming indie singer-songwriter. Released November 4, 2022.
I appreciate all the loving and encouraging people that have helped bring about this release. Thank you!
My Story
An eccentric piano teacher and my dad’s guitar collided around 2012, opening what has been one of the sweetest chapters of my life - songwriting. 2nd place in my school’s talent show in grade 12 is what is currently keeping the flame alive. At 16 I quit my job at the Newsagency and decided I was a busker. And between being paid in sausage rolls, bananas, gym membership cards and occasional smooches on the cheek, I realised the captivating power of a song. Bypassers dancing, friends sitting contently, families holding each other, it all kind of revealed the transcendent gravity of music to hold us suspended in space for a moment.
I gave up busking and gigging a couple of years back because of anxieties and injuries but always think fondly of the times I played by the beach til’ late in the night and felt a closeness with total strangers. Now, I sit in my lounge room most nights and write something in my notebook. My first EP “Growing Out of You” is available on those little buttons above. It was a really fulfilling moment in time. Thank you Paulie B (Yamanui Studio, Sunshine Coast) for his guidance and Dorah Jacson for singing a song with me.
My second EP ‘freckles’ (2022) is now here, recorded with Garrett Kato in the Northern Rivers. A long time coming, it feels good to share this with you…
When I was 17 and studying music in the city I wrote this song. Most lunchtimes I would go to the practice rooms downstairs and just write something, whatever...
“You’ve got the best heart for me…”
The Old Museum
There’s an old museum called The Old Museum on the way into Brisbane from my house. I always wondered what it sounded like inside. So we went inside… and we recorded a couple of songs in heavenly reverb back in 2018. We went a couple of times, it was so otherworldly. My friend Danien Berends was behind camera and the edit for each one - he’s a handy man to have around that’s for sure. At about 5pm in the afternoon the sun blazes in rainbow glory through that stained glass window, and boy is it lovely. Click here to listen…
Words, words, words…
A collection of things I’ve said in song, and maybe never said without.
“Aloneness - it’s not the first I’ve known this. It’s a book on a shelf, that I wrote.”
“I won’t lie it’s just tonight... I forget you most the time.
Like I’m sure you do for me. We’ll forget those memories...”
“It’s your gravity that captured me,
the rising tide that caught me suddenly,
I’m paralysed by your philosophy,
when I first saw you, that’s when I believed”
“I remember how it felt to fall in love with you.
Like a foreign land, everything I touched, it felt so new.”
“Let’s run back and tell the younger me that time is gold, don’t spend it like it’s free.”
“It’s alright, burn the light, out of sight, you’re a grown up, there’s a time to let it go.
Touch her lips, let her kiss, breathe it in, just like this, there’s a place to let your feelings grow...”
“I have a bed but I don’t sleep much,
my head’s wrapped around you,
I’m laying down but I’ll still stay up,
wondering what you’re getting up to”
I mean, if you’re reading this far down this page then that’s really cool. So, here’s a random little demo clip from when Kayla (Dorah Jacson) and I wrote some things together. Fingers crossed this will be a song one day…