Muso, songwriter and record cover designer , Gary Hunn, of Magnetic Island , is soon to set out on a great film making venture covering the major Australian bushrangers . Little Darwin has discussed the project with him and he has revealed an encyclopedic knowledge of bushrangers through research , including Ned Kelly , Captain Moonlight , Dan Morgan and Captain Starlight.
The angles are many and varied. Over the years Gary has had a strong influence on bands and recording in the North. A guitarist/vocalist , he started two bands Crawling Kingsnakes and The Primitive Things . Hunn helped Townsville Councillor Jack Wilson , record the Sun basketball team’s theme song , Sun’s Up . As fate would have it ,Hunn is related to the popular Australian singer , Gladys Moncrieff.
Interested in
history , expecially the
life and times
of Napoleon Bonaparte , Gary also likes
the poetry of
Rimbaud , Coleridge and
Robert Burns . Poetry, he found, helped him compose songs.
A song he
wrote , Hallelujah, Auld Lang
Syne, became a hit
in Scotland. He penned the
piece after learning
that Robert Burns
had composed Auld Lang Syne
, and
his tune coincided
with the Robert
Burns Bicentenary.
From Brisbane ,
Hunn had worked
in advertising and
the recording industry
before coming to
Townsville for Warner
Brothers selling and promoting discs and
artists in an
area which included
Cairns , Mackay and Darwin
in the Northern
Territory.Travelling with Gary on the film shoot in Queensland, Victoria and NSW will be a son aptly named Kelly.
