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'WE WEREN'T ALLOWED TO BE OURSELV': HOW ELECTRIC FIELDS BURST OUT OF THE BOXELECTRIC FIELDS HAS TAKEN THE ATRALIAN MIC SCENE BY STORM WH THEIR UNIQUE FN OF ABORIGAL CULTURE AND ELECTRO POP, BUT SUCCS HASN'T E EASILY.ELECTRIC FIELDS PERFORM AT THE 2019 EUROVISN - ATRALIA DECIS FAL AT THE GOLD COAST FEBARY. SOURCE: AAPTHERE'S A HH AS ZAACHARIAHA FIELDG STEPS UP TO MICROPHONE. DRAPED A PURPLE SAT KIMONO, HIS WAIST-LONG BRAIDS ILED UP A THICK HEADBAND, HE EXUS AN ETHEREAL QUALY AS HE LETS OUT A LONG, EP NOTE WHILE GAZG TENSELY, ENIGMATILLY TO THE MIDDLE DISTANCE. HUNDREDS OF PUNTERS SWAY GENTLY AS FIELDG'S HYPNOTIC MELODY ECHO AROUND THE QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY DORIUM, HIS VOICE GENTLY EASG TO A HIGHER REGISTER - GIVG THE CROWD A TASTE OF HIS CREDIBLE VOL RANGE.ANOTHER MOMENT OF SILENCE HANGS, BEFORE MICHAEL ROSS ON THE KEYBOARD UNLEASH AN ELECTRO BEAT AND SUDNLY THE DORIUM IS A FLURRY OF MOVEMENT. WHEN FIELDG UNFURLS HIS HEADBAND, WHIPPG HIS BRAIDS FIANTLY, THE CROWD IS RAPTUR.SUCH IS THE EXPERIENCE OF A LIVE PERFORMANCE BY ELECTRIC FIELDS - THE ALAI DUO OF FIELDG AND ROSS SHAKG UP THE ATRALIAN MIC DTRY WH THEIR UNIQUE BLEND OF SOARG VOLS, PULSG BEATS AND EIC ENERGY.THEIR SOUND HAS BEEN SCRIBED AS THE LOVE CHILD OF DAFT PUNK AND NA SIMONE, BUT LEAD VOLIST FIELDG IS RELUCTANT TO PLACE A LABEL ON ."THE SOUND THAT I FEEL ELECTRIC FIELDS WORKS WH, REALLY HS THOSE EMOTNS," HE TOLD NITV NEWS."IT REALLY HS THE FEELG OF SAD, REALLY FS THE FEELG OF HAPPY, REALLY HS THE FEELG OF CURSY – LIKE THERE’S A SOUND TO THOSE FEELGS THAT WE’RE CREATG SLOWLY."AND 'S A SOUND ATRALIAN DIENC ARE LOVG. THE DANCE ACT HAS BEE A POPULAR FIXTURE ON THE FTIVAL CIRCU, AND NARROWLY MISSED OUT ON THE CHANCE TO REPRENT ATRALIA AT THE EUROVISN SONG CONTT.BUT 'S BEEN A LONG ROAD TO SUCCS FOR FIELDG AND ROSS, WHO - SPE THEIR DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS - FACED SIAR STGGL GROWG UP. FIELDG WAS RAISED THE REMOTE SERT MUNY OF MII SOUTH ATRALIA’S ANANGU PJANTJATJARA YANKUNYTJATJARA LANDS. HE SCRIB THE MUNY AS A "BETIFUL, SPECIAL PLACE" THAT HE WILL ALWAYS LL HOME, BUT SAYS GROWG UP AS A GAY MAN A REMOTE INDIGENO MUNY WASN'T EASY."GROWG UP WAS VERY DIFFICULT. THE KIDS... THEY MA VERY HARD FOR ME WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, BUT I FIVE THEM AND I LOVE THEM," HE SAID. "I DON’T REALLY LIKE [TALKG ABOUT ] BEE WAS JT VERY DIFFICULT, THE FEELG WAS NOT NICE... I HAVE A LOT MORE RPECT FOR MY CHILDHOOD NOW."MEANWHILE, MIC PRODUCER ROSS HAD HIS OWN STGGL TRYG TO RENCILE HIS INTY WH HIS RELIGN."I HAD 17 YEARS WH ONE RELIGN THEN LEFT THAT, THEN WENT SEARCHG, HAD THREE-AND-A-HALF YEARS WH ANOTHER RELIGN – LEFT THAT," HE RELLED."THEY ALL SAID THAT ME BEG GAY WAS EVIL AND TERRIBLE AND I KNEW THAT I WAS MA THAT WAY. SO I REALISED THAT THEY HAD SOMETHG WRONG, BEE MY SOUL DON’T LIE."THE PAIR MET ALAI NE YEARS AGO, BUT ONLY BEGAN WRG MIC TOGETHER THE LAST FEW YEARS. TOGETHER, THEY’VE BURST OUT OF THE BOX AND FOUND A WAY TO CELEBRATE EXACTLY WHO THEY ARE."ONE THG THAT REALLY DREW TOGETHER WAS THERE WERE SO MANY THGS BOTH OF OUR LIV TELLG WE WEREN’T ALLOWED TO BE OURSELV, NATURALLY, THENTILLY – WE HAD TO F SOME BOX THEY WANTED TO F . AND WE’RE BOTH SO SICK OF THAT," ROSS EXPLAS. "THE MOST I’M AT PEACE IS WHEN I’M ON STAGE," ADDS FIELDG. "BEE ’S OUR SAFE SPACE AND ’S OUR SPACE THAT WE HAVE CREATED WHERE WE N EXPRS OURSELV HOWEVER WE WANT AND JT LIVE OUR TTH ON OUR STAGE."FOR FIELDG, HIS CULTURAL INTY ALSO PLAYS AN TEGRAL PART HIS PERFORMANC. HIS NATIVE PJANTJATJARA AND YANKUNYTJATJARA LANGUAGE FEATUR STRONGLY THEIR SONGS. "THIS IS A PART OF WHO I AM, AND YOU ARE GOG TO TAKE IF YOU ARE GOG TO ENJOY ELECTRIC FIELDS’ MIC," HE SAYS. "AND ’S A NICE PLATFORM TO ALSO SHOWSE THAT ’S ONE OF ATRALIA’S LIVG AND OLST LANGUAG THE UNTRY."THE PAIR HAVE NO SHORTAGE OF CREATIVE ENERGY, WH AROUND 40 UNRELEASED TRACKS ON THE BACK-BURNER AND A NEW ALBUM ON THE WAY.UNRPNG THEIR GROWG SUCCS SEEMS TO BE THEIR LOVE AND RPECT FOR EACH OTHER: "WE'RE FAY," THEY SAY SIMPLY.READ MOREELECTRIC FIELDS TO PETE FOR EUROVISN PLACESHARE4 M READPUBLISHED 27 FEBARY 2019 11:12AMBY ELLA ARCHIBALD-BGESOURCE: NITV NEWSTAGSCOUNTRYMICABORIGAL AND TORR STRA ISLANR PEOPLSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREPOPULAR STORI
He scrib the muny as a "betiful, special place" that he will always ll home, but says growg up as a gay man a remote Indigeno muny wasn't easy.
"They all said that me beg gay was evil and terrible and I knew that I was ma that way.