COUNTRY STAR TUNES IN WITH AQUAMAN
A BROMANCE was born in Brisbane when Aussie music great Troy Cassar-Daley and Aquaman star Jason Momoa met at the recent State of Origin series decider.
Cassar-Daley says he and Momoa, a keen guitarist, bonded over their shared love of music at the footy.
”He was in our corporate box at Origin — Khal Drogo,” Cassar-Daley says.
“He got me on to Alan Lomax. He held his phone up to my ear to listen to these historical songs collected in the field. They’re old recordings Alan Lomax had done in these southern prisons that are part of the archive of American music.”
Cassar-Daley is in town to play tonight’s Broadbeach Country Music Festival launch at The Star before he plays two shows at the free festival — a Things I Carry Around album and hits set in Surf Parade on Friday and a Tex Dubbo (his alter ego, named in honour of a country superstar/bird impersonator character from The Paul Hogan Show) classic covers gig in the Kurrawa Park big top on Saturday arvo.
And yes, you might even spot Momoa in the crowd.
“I sent the invitation out to him,” Cassar-Daley said.