PEL Presents NEM#260: Jacqui Hunt (Single Gun Theory) Now Master of Her Synth Domain
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Who is Jacqui Hunt and how did she rise to fame with Single Gun Theory?
Though nothing can bring back the hour, a splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not.
You're listening to Nakedly Examined Music, a podcast about songs and songwriters. My name is Mark Lintonmeyer. My guest for episode 260 is Jackie Hunt. She started singing as a teenager in an Australian band called The Guinea Pigs and was from there discovered by songwriter Kath Power and electronic musician Peter Rivet Karnak, and became the singer of their band Single Gun Theory. That was in 1986. You'll write now Hearing Take Me Back from their second album, 1991's Millions Like Stars in My Hands, The Daggers in My Heart Wage War. That band broke up by the mid-90s. Jackie did some other guest singing in collaboration, for instance, with the band Euphoria, for a single in 1997. She eventually released her first solo album, Orophonic, in 2008.
And after a few singles released in the interim, she's just released her second album. Second full solo album, Desiderium, and we'll be talking about the song Planet from that, co-written with her guinea pigs bandmate Brian Connolly. We'll then hear a track, Myriad, from that first solo album, Ourophonic, then go back to The Sea of Core Experience by Single Gun Theory from Flow River of My Soul from 1994, and we'll conclude by listening to another track off the new album, Cycles. For more information, please see Jackie Hunt dot net. For more about this podcast, see nakedly examined music dot com. And to support the effort and get your episodes ad free, see patreon dot com slash nakedly examined music.
I will play the little bit of Take Me Back by Single Gun Theory from their second album, Millions Like Stars in My Uh say the whole
Millions Like Stars in My Hands.
What happened to Single Gun Theory and how did Jacqui transition to solo work?
The daggers in my heart wage war.
Okay. I want to hear you and your beautiful voice say that. So that's the second album. Yeah. Can you say a little about the arc of the career, right? We had early things through the mid nineties and then kind of a a break just because that band broke up, I assume.
Yeah, that's right. We've never officially said that we have.
Mm-hmm.
One could assume now that we must have.
And then uh various collaborations and your first solo album will talk about something from two thousand eight, and then your second one now. So can you say a little about where you're at, why this album now?
I didn't really intend to take such a long break. It's just that's kind of what happened. And and I'm a little bit amazed myself that eighteen years has gone by. There have been other musical collaborations within those years. So it hasn't been without some output. But it just felt like the right time because I'd had a few tough years with the loss of both. Both of my parents relatively close together. They they weren't together, so they're sort of quite separate deaths in their own right. Then some illness of my own. And then it's just like, oh, look, you know, I need to kind of switch this energy and get back to things that I inside of me that I need to express. And I'd always been writing anyway in my home studio.
And so it was just a kind of motivation, really, because Life can be taken without much warning. And so it's a bit of a boost and a bit of a healing process too. It's a healing process to create your own work in some respects.
So the new album Desiderium.
Yeah.
Uh can you say a little about the song you selected, Planet, before we hear it in full and then we'll talk more extensively.
That song goes back quite some years actually. The lyrics were written by Brian Connolly, who's done a lot of co-writing with me on the album. But while Desiderium is kind of very focused in the immediate events, I suppose Planet is kind of the beginning of my musical collaboration with Brian Connolly. And yeah, look, it's a love song. We fell in love. You know, we we broke all the rules of working together and and I'm glad we did because he is my planet and my light. And so we weren't together at the time, but he sent me those lyrics. He was overseas from an airport lounge, I think it was.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Jacqui Hunt and how did she rise to fame with Single Gun Theory?
0:00–1:56
2
What happened to Single Gun Theory and how did Jacqui transition to solo work?
1:56–4:31
3
How did the loss of her parents and personal challenges inspire the new album Desiderium?
4:31–11:19
4
What is the story behind the song “Planet” and its collaboration with Brian Connolly?
11:19–16:49
5
How does Jacqui create her synth soundscapes and choose the instruments for her tracks?
16:49–24:52
6
What are Jacqui’s plans for performing live and how will she translate her studio work to the stage?
24:52–35:13
7
Why did Jacqui choose “The Sea of Core Experience” from Single Gun Theory to revisit?
35:13–52:15
8
What does the closing track “Cycles” reveal about Jacqui’s artistic direction and future projects?
52:15–1:04:24