Pip Proud (Philip Proud) is an Australian singer-songwriter, poet, novelist and dramatist whose idiosyncratic song-poems gained a cult following in Australia in the 1960s. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia and is the brother of the well-known artist
Geoffrey ProudGeoffrey Proud born in Adelaide, Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1990 with a portrait of Dorothy Hewett, and the Sulman Prize in 1976 with Untitled Jane. Has held 41 solo exhibitions in his career.-External links:*...
.
Proud's unusual musical style has been likened to that of Britain's
Syd BarrettSyd Barrett , born Roger Keith Barrett, was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist and artist. He is most remembered as a founding member of psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, providing major musical and stylistic direction in their early work, although he left the group in 1968 amidst...
, though he was unfamiliar with Barrett's work when he recorded three albums of his own songs in the late Sixties.
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Pip Proud (Philip Proud) is an Australian singer-songwriter, poet, novelist and dramatist whose idiosyncratic song-poems gained a cult following in Australia in the 1960s. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia and is the brother of the well-known artist
Geoffrey ProudGeoffrey Proud born in Adelaide, Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1990 with a portrait of Dorothy Hewett, and the Sulman Prize in 1976 with Untitled Jane. Has held 41 solo exhibitions in his career.-External links:*...
.
Proud's unusual musical style has been likened to that of Britain's
Syd BarrettSyd Barrett , born Roger Keith Barrett, was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist and artist. He is most remembered as a founding member of psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, providing major musical and stylistic direction in their early work, although he left the group in 1968 amidst...
, though he was unfamiliar with Barrett's work when he recorded three albums of his own songs in the late Sixties. The first,
De Da De Dum (Grendel, 1967) was privately produced and only about 50 copies were pressed. He was signed to the Philips label and his first LP for them Adrenaline and Richard
(Philips, 1968) reprised most of the songs from his first LP, some of them with a full band backing added without his involvement. After recording his second album A Bird In The Engine
(Philips, 1969) he travelled to Britain to further his career. He ceased working with the Philips label and did not release any further recordings until the mid-1990s.
Proud was also the subject of a 15-minute experimental documentary, De Da De Dum
, directed by Sydney filmmaker Garry SheadGarry Shead is Australian artist and filmmaker who won the Archibald Prize in 1992/93 with a portrait of Tom Thompson, and won the Dobell Prize in 2004 with Colloquy with John Keats....
, a member of the Ubu FilmsUbu Films was an experimental film-making collective based in Sydney, Australia that operated from 1965 to around 1970. It was formed by Albie Thoms, David Perry, Aggy Read and John Clarke at Sydney University in 1965...
collective. One of his greatest supporters in the late 1960s was the highly regarded poet Michael DransfieldMichael Dransfield was an Australian poet active in the 1960s and early 1970s, acquiring a considerable reputation before his premature death.-Early life:...
, who encouraged him to write novels.
Most of Proud's later output remained unpublished, but in the 1970s two of his plays -- Vlort Phlitson, Intergalactic Trouble Shooter
and Don Coyote -- were realised as radiophonic works by the ABC's rock music radio station Double Jay.
Proud was tracked down in the mid-1990s by historian/writer David Nichols and this ultimately led to the re-release of his two Philips LPs on CD on Nic Dalton's
Half A CowHalf a Cow is an independent record label from Australia, established in 1990 by Sydney musician and music identity Nic Dalton.- History :In 1987 - 1989 Dalton ran a bookshop in the Sydney suburb of Glebe called Dalton's Books...
label. Proud has continued to record and has released several more albums of new music primarily for the Emperor Jones label. He now lives in Healesville, Victoria.
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