Michael Buining – Musician
Singer | Songwriter | Composer | Guitarist | Performer
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Michael Buining released his fourth album “Redemption” in 2017, the first under the banner of “The Roadhouse Regulars”. This album sits firmly in the tradition of many concept albums before it and tells the story of the Man, the Woman, the Preacher and the Way out of Town. The album is available on iTunes.
The Roadhouse Regulars is an “Alternate | Acoustic | Heavy | Roots” project influenced by 1970’s blues and hard rock fused with newer alternate roots music. The music is raw and is built around dual acoustic rhythm guitars and hard rock style drums with harmonica, pedal steel and piano giving additional voice.
The album “Redemption” has been followed by “Take me to the Badlands, Mamma”- a recording project inspired by iconic hard rock and heavy metal artists of the late 1970’s including Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, AC/DC, Deep Purple and KISS.
Michael’s previous album Third was released in 2014 and is available on iTunes. His two previous albums- “Delicacy” and “Pennies for Tomorrow” are available at gigs.
Michael’s other musical project “Swamp Dawkins” continues to perform around Sydney and throughout NSW hosting hoedowns, barn dances and bushdances for corporates, private parties, festivals and other events aswell as regularly playing at our local once a month.
Michael has also just completed his first commissioned song- “Sweet Sweet” and has another 3 in the pipeline.
Please also head to Michael’s Facebook page for photos and a few video clips.
The Roadhouse Regulars
Alternate | Acoustic | Heavy | Roots
The Roadhouse Regulars is Michael’s most recent musical project with the album “Redemption” released in 2017, followed by “Take me to the Badlands, Mamma” later that same year. The music is inspired by heavy blues and hard rock of the 1970’s, stripped back and built around acoustic guitars and rock drums with harmonica, pedal steel and piano adding additional voice.
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Author
Bobba is my Dad | As the Author Intended
Aside from being a singer/songwriter, composer and guitarist- Michael is also an author, having published two books.
His second book- “Bobba is my Dad“– is Michael’s autobiography. It’s the story of him growing up with his father and is told for children, through a child’s eyes. It’ll make you laugh and it’ll make you cry and it’ll make your children ask you what your stories are.His first book- “As the Author Intended“– is a book that sets out the literary structure of several important books of the bible and the critical link between structure and meaning- in particular, the use of chiasmus. The book came about from the many years Michael spent within the church and somewhat ironically, the book heralded the start of Michael’s move away from many of those beliefs.
Inventor
Pointless | Fridge or Cupboard
Michael is the creator of “Pointless: The Board Game“… putting the bored back into board games. This truly unique and revolutionary game was created with Bruce Cowled after many long lunches sometime in the hazy 1990’s.
Michael is also the inventor of “Fridge or Cupboard” which has now become a card game for the whole family to enjoy. It really is a winner- talk about an ultimate stocking stuffer.
Motorcycle Tourer
ManTime: A True Story
In between performing, recording, writing and playing Pointless, Michael takes some long rides on his bike. In 2015 Michael joined one of his riding buddies and road across the U.S. from south to north and east to west, taking in Route66. Check out the travel blog on facebook.. ManTime: A True Story.
On the Air
Album Release: “Redemption” by Michael Buining
The Roadhouse Regulars is a related project to Swamp Dawkins and in 2018 their debut album “Redemption” was released and during 2018/19 it received extensive radio airplay across Australia. Here are two interviews with Michael talking about the album on Noosa FM and Seymour FM.
ABC 702 Exhumed Twice Grand-Finalist
In 2014 Michael submitted two songs to the ABC702 Exhumed competition and both entries made it into the Grand Final featuring the best 10 entries! The two songs were “Even Though Paul Kelly” and ‘Hell it’s Hot Down Here‘ which opened the night followed by “My Hope is My God”– all originals composed and performed by Michael and released on “Third”. Find out more on the Swamp Dawkins website or Facebook page or you can also watch some videos on the Swamp Dawkins YouTube Channel.