Bourke NSW: '28 On Top' is a collaboration that grew from an ongoing Desert Pea Media project with students from Bourke High School and local community members.

Since 2016, DPM has been working with the Bourke community to deliver songwriting and film projects. One of the outcomes of the project was a group called the 'B-Town Warriors'. In 2017, they released their hit debut single ‘People of the Red Sunset’ which dropped onto spot rotation on Triple J, attracted international media attention on its way to becoming a summer anthem of 2017 (400,000+ views on Youtube). The crew went on to release four other songs including the 2018 banger ‘Thundercloud’ that went on to win a National Indigenous Music Award, earning a segment on Channel 10’s ‘The Project’.

Throughout 2023/24 - Desert Pea Media has been delivering a new, foundation-building project model in Bourke called 'Crossroads'. Engaging previous B-Town Warriors participants in skills development, leadership, cultural education and creative development projects. Through an ongoing mentoring project with DPM artists, OG B-Town Warriors Lorraine Dutton, Braith Kelly and Jemmah Knight have been employed throughout the year at Bourke High School, working with current students to create dance, music and film productions.

'All That You Need' is the second tune from '28 On Top' and a new iteration of DPM's work. Co-facilitated by Lorraine Dutton, Jemmah Knight, Braith Kelly and the DPM Creative Team - led by Jannali Doncaster.

“It’s been an incredible experience being a part of the Crossroads Project. We don’t get many opportunities out here, and we feel the impacts not only on the kids and the community but our own wellbeing. Music is medicine.” – Lorraine Dutton (B-Town Warriors, Crossroads Project Participant)

"Our work in Bourke and Moree over the past couple of decades, and more recently through 'The Crossroads Project' has been an incredible journey of connection and transformation” says Toby Finlayson, Creative Director of Desert Pea Media. “It’s an honour to watch these young people grow, not only as artists and creatives but as people. The power of music and media to bridge gaps, create healing and amplify unheard voices is immeasurable.”

“The legacy of DPM’s work in Bourke is well-known in this region. Hopefully we can create a model where the older crew inspire the younger students, and they in turn become leaders and role models for future generations” (Murray Cronin – Executive Principal, Bourke High School)

Funded by Bourke High School.

Special thanks to the B-Town mob, and to the Indigenous Community of Bourke for your trust and friendship over many years.

LYRICS

Two feet in on this dangerous track
Ain’t no one foot about got no time to look back
Got no time to react-we set to hit em where it hurts
We in yah brain like the smell of the rain upon the red dirt

There’s beauty in the stillness
Close your eyes and feel this - just focus on the realness
Yanatya and gum leaf smoke will heal the illness
28 on top (WHAT!) back up in the building

Just do it for yourself and the ones that came before you
Spirits of the country gonna guide an support your truth
So raise the roof-cause we back in the booth
They tried doubting us but we be the proof

Won’t follow the wrong track cause we know where it lead too
Walk your own path we be connected like the tree root
And we do-lead we dont follow surviving all the sorrow
We learn from the past to create a new tomorrow

You is all that you need
You can be what you want to be
When its dark an you can’t see
Lay your burden lean on me

You is all that you need
I am strong an I am free
When its dark an you can’t see
Wake up now an live your dreams

We hurt our families with these words an these fights
Divided we fall in the dark of the night
We so blinded by the violence we don't know where to start
If there’s nowhere to go its easy to take the wrong path

Adrenalin rush 20 seconds not enough
Can’t break the cycle young teens acting tough
Young mum's too busy, dad's drunk an dizzy
Not enough love why the love be missing?

When these times get tough you can find your wisdom
Dont stop now you can climb the distance
Don't lay down to society's conditions
They keeping us submitted, tryna keep us on Missions

STARRING BOURKE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Jannali Doncaster - Lead Facilitator/Co-Writer
Toby Finlayson - Director/Camera 2/Co-Writer/Co-Producer/Project Director
Samuel Vines - DOP/Editor
Josh Nicholas - Music Producer
Daniel Glossop - Sound Engineer/Co-Writer/Co-Facilitator
Lorraine Dutton - Co-Writer/Co-Facilitator
Jemmah Knight - Co-Writer/Co-Facilitator
Braith Kelly - Co-Facilitator/Photographer
Scott Large - General Manager/Co-Producer
Nathaniel Sherwood - Audio Mixing/Mastering
Colour Grading - Nicholas Andrews

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