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The Bedroom Philosopher (real name Justin Heazlewood) is an Australian musician, comedian and writer. He was born on June 12, 1980 in Burnie,Tasmania¹.

2002-2005 Living On The Edge Of My Bed

The Bedroom Philosopher began in 2002, when he regularly appeared on Triple J's The Morning Show². He also filmed two pilot episodes of The Bedroom Philosopher Show for the ABC Fly TV, a now defunct digital youth television station³. He also secured his first major musical gig, playing support for Bodyjar and The Bumblebeez at Triple J's Unearthed concert that year.

The Bedroom Philosopher has performed in past years at both the Big Day Out⁴, Falls Festival⁵, Melbourne Fringe Festival⁶, Adelaide Fringe Festival⁷, National Folk Festival, Perth International Arts Festival⁸ and Melbourne International Comedy Festival. His three Melbourne Comedy Festival Shows have included Living On The Edge Of My Bed (2003)⁹, In Bed With My Doona (2004), and Pyjamarama (2005). In 2006 he teamed up with Josh Earl to form The Renegades Of Folk, performing a Melbourne Comedy Festival show of the same name¹⁰.

The Bedroom Philosopher's first unofficial album, Living on the Edge of My Bed, featuring tracks which had earlier been played on The Morning Show, was released in 2003. This unmastered collection was only sold at live shows.

2005-2008 I'm So Post Modern

In 2005 the Bedroom Philosopher released his first retail and studio album, In Bed With My Doona¹¹, produced by his Uncle Ken Heazlewood. This release was taken strongly by Triple J's audience, with the first single "I’m So Post Modern" reaching number 72 in the Hottest 100¹². The Bedroom Philosopher was the only unsigned artist to make the list in 2005¹³. His self-produced film clip of "I'm So Post Modern" (by Dan Ilic) also featured on the Hottest 100 DVD¹⁴.

2007-2009 Brown And Orange

After performing at Perth International Arts Festival The Bedroom Philosopher completed his second album Brown and Orange with producers Chris Scallan and Martin "Moose" Lubran, due to be released in February 2009¹⁵. The first single from this was "The Happiest Boy", released in October 2007¹⁶. The video clip of "The Happiest Boy" was made by David Blumenstein at Nakedfella Productions¹⁷. 2007 also saw the introduction of 'The Awkwardstra', comprising of Andy Hazel on bass, Hugh Rabinovci on drums and Michael O'Connor on flute¹⁶. Late 2008 saw the addition of Jamie Power on percussion and Gordon Cole on sitar¹⁸. This coincided with the release of second single Wow Wow's Song which quickly became a Youtube hit garnering 20 000 plays in it's first 5 days of being posted¹⁹, partly due to popular comedy trio Tripod featuring as backing vocalists.

Discography

• Living on the Edge of My Bed (2003) Demo
• In Bed With My Doona (2005) LP
• Folkstar/I'm So Post Modern (2006) Maxi-Single
• The Happiest Boy (2007) iTunes only single.
• Wow Wow's Song (2008) single
• Brown and Orange (2009) LP

Writing

Under his real name, Justin Heazlewood has frequently written for a number of Australian publications.

Since 2002, Heazlewood has written a fortnightly column for Canberra streetpress BMA called "Struth Be Told". More recently, Heazlewood has written regular contributions for national Australian magazines Frankie Magazine, JMag and The Big Issue. His works have also appeared in Australian publications Sleepers Magazine²⁰, Rattapallax²¹, Going Down Swinging²² and The Sex Mook²³.

From 2005 to 2006, Heazlewood was a full-time writer for the Network Ten sketch comedy program The Ronnie Johns Half Hour²⁴.

As The Bedroom Philosopher, Heazlewood has written a monthly Ezine "LapTopping" since 2002²⁵.

From 1999 to 2005, Heazlewood was a regular contributor and editorial committee member for Voiceworks²⁶.

World records

• Longest continuous performance of Daryl Braithwaite’s "The Horses" while riding on a horse carousel on Melbourne Cup day in Canberra - (30 minutes)²⁷.
• Longest continuous performance of John Farnham’s "You’re The Voice" in Melbourne - (9 hours)²⁸.
• Longest demonstration of ‘BoonRapping’ (reading David Boon’s autobiography in a hip hop style) in Hobart - (12.5 minutes)³.

Chart statistics

• "I’m So Post Modern" voted number 72 in Triple J Hottest 100, 2005. (lyrics)²⁹

References

External links

• The Bedroom Philosopher official site
• The Bedroom Philosopher's MySpace page.
• Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Justin Heazlewood [1]

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• This page was last modified on 13 November 2008, at 13:11.

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