Johanna Pigott
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Johanna Paton Pigott is an Australian musician
, singer/songwriter
and screenwriter
. Her best known hit songs are Dragon's
"Rain" which peaked at #2 on the Australia singles charts
in 1983 and John Farnham's
"Age of Reason". "Rain" was co-written with partner Dragon's Todd Hunter
and his brother Marc Hunter
. When "Age of Reason" reached the top of the charts in July 1988, Pigott became the first Australian woman to have written a #1 hit. It was co-written with Todd Hunter.
Scripts by Pigott for TV include Sweet and Sour
(created with Tim Gooding), Heartbreak High
(also co-wrote theme with Hunter and other songs) and Mortified
(created by Angela Webber
). Films include: Broken English
(co-written with Gregor Nicholas and James Salter
) and Alex (original music with Hunter, and lead vocals on soundtrack).
in Croydon
together with schoolmate Angela Webber
. Following matriculation from high school
in the 1970s, Pigott studied Architecture at the University of Sydney
.
XL Capris
was an indie-punk band formed in 1978 by Johanna Pigott (bass guitar
, vocal, keyboard
, guitar
) aka 'Alligator Bagg', Tim Gooding (guitar, vocal) aka 'Errol Cruz', Julie Anderson (drums
) aka 'Nancy Serapax' and Kimble Rendall
(guitar, vocal) aka 'Dag Rattler'. Early practice sessions were in the front room of a Birchgrove
house where Gooding (and later Rendall) lived. Their first single was a punk
version of Tommy Leonetti's
"My City of Sydney" (1979), which had a promo video showing the four in bed together. Pigott was lead vocalist and bass guitarist in the video. The single received some radio airplay but was not a commercial success. Second 1979 single "Skylab (Son of Telstar)" was written by Rendall but had even less success.
Their next single, "World War Three" (October 1980), produced by Todd Hunter
and was written by Pigott and Hunter. Rendall left to form Le Hoodoo Gurus
, became a music video director and then a second unit director for the latter two Matrix series movies. He was replaced by Hunter (guitar), Michael Churnside (bass) joined, Anderson left to be replaced by Barry Blackler (drum), Michael Farmer (drum) also joined.
First album was Where's Hank? (March 1981, produced by Hunter). Gooding wrote ten songs including two with Pigott: "Red Bikini Runaway" (single, April 1981) and "Hi Rise Heart". Pigott also wrote "Evelyn". 'Hank' was a German shepherd owned by Rendall: "Hank went to live on a farm at Nambucca Heads". Based on Rendall's and Pigott's recollections, the album title Where's Hank? is a pun on a 1980s TV ad for a chocolate bar: 'Where's George?' The response is ... 'gone for a Tosca!'
For the second album Weeds (October 1981, produced by Hunter) Pigott and Hunter wrote six songs including the single "Igloos", Pigott wrote "Please Excuse Me" and Gooding also wrote six songs. Hunter returned to Dragon
late in 1981 and XL Capris dissolved in 1982.
Street poster art
featuring XL Capris include:
Toby Zoates' 1978 screenprint, XL Capris for the B-side of 1981 single "Red Bikini Runaway" called "K-Tel
City" (Gooding) and has the band on the bonnet of a car crashing into a TV game show; and Paul Worstead's 1979 screenprints, Settlement Dance - Scarlet, XL-Capris and XL-Capris, Settlement - Beginning of School Holiday Dance.
on bass guitar (1982). Video for their 1982 single "Sudan" shows Pigott heavily disguised in a burqa
-like black costume strumming bass to Stephanie Rilen's plaintive vocals and Ian Rilen's
guitar.
Scribble (1983–1987) was a post punk synth pop band based around Pigott (vocals, guitar, keyboard) with session musicians / band members including Hunter, Mark Bell, Lee Borkman, Mike Caen, Bill Heckenberg, Geoff Lungren and Tim Powles. They released Scribble (a seven track mini-LP) in 1983 including single "Silly Girl" (Pigott) / "Mr Calico" (Pigott, Hunter). "Silly Girl" video showed a wistful Pigott singing and playing guitar. "Adaptability" aka "Cartoon Connection (theme)" (Pigott, Hunter, Gooding) was a 1984 single. Two albums were: So Far 1983-1985 (LP 1985) and Pop Art (LP 1986), which had ten tracks, including singles: "Sunday School", "Don't Give Your Heart Away" and "Alligator" (all by Pigott, Hunter). "Alligator" was later performed by Fleur Beaupert on Heartbreak High
episodes #133 & #145 (Series 6, 1998). Pigott's nickname from XL Capris had been 'Alligator Bagg'. The Pop Art cover depicts a stylized version of Pigott. Although achieving some cult interest there was little commercial success for Scribble.
In 1993, Genni Kane (of the Flying Emus
) and Johanna Pigott released "Starlight Hotel" (Genni Kane, Pigott, John Kane, Hunter) as a CD single.
In 2005, Pigott sang a verse of "ComeDown" by KingJustice on their album What the World Needs Now.
come back hit single "Rain". Pigott remembers, "I went from a little underground band to finding myself up the back of the Entertainment Centre hearing 10,000 people sing the chorus of my song." The song reached #2 but was blocked by Austen Tayshus'
#1 hit "Australiana". Pigott sang "Rain" with Rockmelons
on their album Form 1 Planet (1992) with Hunter (and Rockmelons' Bryon Jones) providing backing vocals. Hunter and Pigott co-wrote other Dragon songs including "Cry" and Pigott was a session musician on Dragon's 1989 album, Bondi Road. Re-formed in 2006, Dragon perform acoustic versions of their earlier work including "Rain".
had asked Hunter and Pigott to write him a song, they provided a number one hit single, "Age of Reason" (30 July 1988 for four weeks) also on his Age of Reason
album which debuted at number one (July 1988). The demo version had been recorded with Todd's brother Marc Hunter
singing lead. Pigott became the first Australian woman to write an Australian number one hit.
first single "Only You" (1990), also on his first album, Keith Urban (1991).
TV series Sweet and Sour
(1984), they also wrote episodes. Shared experiences in the music industry lent authenticity to their scripts. Pigott also wrote (or co-wrote) four songs for the two soundtrack albums.
The theme song for TV series, Heartbreak High
(1994–1999) written by Hunter and Pigott was nominated for the 1994 Australasian Performing Right Association
(APRA) 'Television Theme of the Year' award
. Hunter was the composer for the series and, with Pigott, wrote over 20 songs for the series (mostly performed by Abi Tucker
, Fleur Beaupert or themselves). Pigott also wrote episode scripts. Episode 61 featured six songs written by Hunter & Pigott: "Down to the River", "Rest in Peace" and "Second Chance" performed by Tucker and Terry Serio; and "You've Changed", "Only You" and "Whatever I Had with You" by Tucker alone. Hunter and Pigott performed their own songs: "I'll Be There" in episode #70, "Gravity and Psyche" #92, "Love Is Here to Stay" #125.
In 1995 a combined American Broadcasting Company
and Australian Broadcasting Corporation
production, ABC's World Of Discovery: Australia's Outback: The Vanishing Frontier, featured music by Pigott, Hunter, Stacey Widelitz and Lee Holdridge
.
During 2006–2007, TV series, Mortified
episodes # 1.7 Flag Fall and # 1.12 Being Me were written by Pigott. Her close friend and former schoolmate, Angela Webber
, created the TV series and Gooding also wrote scripts for some episodes.
In 2008, Pigott co-wrote the Title Theme (with Hunter) of the new BBC/Southern Star TV Serial Out of the Blue.
aka Daydream Believer (1991) had original music by Hunter and Pigott. Pigott performed "I'll Stand By You" for the soundtrack and, with Hunter, wrote: "The Love Theme", "The Polo Factor" and "Nell Rides Out" for the film score. "Daydream Believer is their first major feature film as composers". End titles song performed by Sam Brown, "With You" (Hunter, Pigott, Brown) involved exchanges of tapes and long-distance phone calls.
Alex aka Alex: The Spirit of a Champion (1993) had original music by Hunter and Pigott. "Alex (theme)" aka "Aotearoa" written by Hunter and "For The Rest Of My Life'" by Hunter and Pigott.
Broken English
(1996) was co-written by Pigott with director Gregor Nicholas and James Salter
. The New Zealand
film won six awards and is a Romeo and Juliet
for Māori Eddie, and an immigrant Croatian
Nina.
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
, singer/songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
and screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
. Her best known hit songs are Dragon's
Dragon (band)
Dragon is a popular New Zealand rock band, they were formed in Auckland, New Zealand in January 1972 and relocated to Sydney, Australia in May 1975. They were previously led by singer Marc Hunter and are currently led by his brother bass player Todd Hunter...
"Rain" which peaked at #2 on the Australia singles charts
Kent Music Report
The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1998...
in 1983 and John Farnham's
John Farnham
John Peter Farnham, AO, formerly billed as Johnny Farnham , is an English-born Australian pop singer. He was a teen pop idol from 1964 to 1979, and has since forged a career as an adult contemporary singer. His career has mostly been as a solo artist although he briefly replaced Glenn Shorrock as...
"Age of Reason". "Rain" was co-written with partner Dragon's Todd Hunter
Todd Hunter
Todd Stuart Hunter is a New Zealand musician and composer known for his involvement in the band Dragon. Their best known songs are "April Sun in Cuba", "Are You Old Enough?", "Still in Love With You", and "Rain"...
and his brother Marc Hunter
Marc Hunter
Marc Alexander Hunter was a New Zealand rock and pop singer best known as the lead vocalist with Dragon, a band formed by his older brother Todd in Auckland in 1973....
. When "Age of Reason" reached the top of the charts in July 1988, Pigott became the first Australian woman to have written a #1 hit. It was co-written with Todd Hunter.
Scripts by Pigott for TV include Sweet and Sour
Sweet and Sour (TV series)
Sweet and Sour is an Australian television series which screened on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1984. It was created by Tim Gooding and Johanna Pigott and was produced internally for the ABC by Jan Chapman...
(created with Tim Gooding), Heartbreak High
Heartbreak High
Heartbreak High is an Australian television series that ran for seven years from 1994 to 1999. The series dealt with the students of Hartley High, a tough high school in a multi-racial area of Sydney, and proved to be a more gritty and fast-paced show than many of its contemporaries...
(also co-wrote theme with Hunter and other songs) and Mortified
Mortified
Mortified was an Australian children's television series, co-produced by the Australian Children's Television Foundation and Enjoy Entertainment for the Nine Network Australia, Disney Australia and the BBC. The series premiered on 30 June 2006 and ended on 11 April 2007 with two seasons and a total...
(created by Angela Webber
Angela Webber
Angela Webber was an Australian author, TV writer, producer and comedian.-Early life:Webber was born in 1954 to Bruce Webber, the head of light entertainment for ABC radio, and Nan, a journalist...
). Films include: Broken English
Broken English (1996 film)
Broken English is a 1996 romantic drama film made in New Zealand. Directed by Gregor Nicholas, it stars Aleksandra Vujcic, Julian Arahanga, Marton Csokas, and Rade Šerbedžija.-Plot:...
(co-written with Gregor Nicholas and James Salter
James Salter
James Salter is an American novelist and short-story writer. Once a career officer and pilot in the United States Air Force, he abandoned the military profession in 1957 after successful publication of his first novel, The Hunters.After a brief career at film writing and film directing, Salter...
) and Alex (original music with Hunter, and lead vocals on soundtrack).
Early life
Pigott was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, SydneyPresbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney
The Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney is an independent, Presbyterian, day and boarding school for girls in Croydon, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, Australia...
in Croydon
Croydon, New South Wales
Croydon is an affluent suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Croydon is located 11 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district. Croydon is split between the two local government areas of Burwood Council and the Municipality of Ashfield.The...
together with schoolmate Angela Webber
Angela Webber
Angela Webber was an Australian author, TV writer, producer and comedian.-Early life:Webber was born in 1954 to Bruce Webber, the head of light entertainment for ABC radio, and Nan, a journalist...
. Following matriculation from high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
in the 1970s, Pigott studied Architecture at the University of Sydney
University of Sydney
The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...
.
XL Capris
XL Capris
XL Capris were an Australian indie-punk band formed in Sydney in 1978 by Julie Anderson, Tim Gooding, Johanna Pigott and Kimble Rendall.Their best known single was a punk version of Tommy Leonetti's "My City of Sydney"...
was an indie-punk band formed in 1978 by Johanna Pigott (bass guitar
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, vocal, keyboard
Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
) aka 'Alligator Bagg', Tim Gooding (guitar, vocal) aka 'Errol Cruz', Julie Anderson (drums
Drum kit
A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
) aka 'Nancy Serapax' and Kimble Rendall
Kimble Rendall
Kimble Rendall is an Australian director, musician and writer mostly known for his Second unit direction of Matrix Reloaded , Matrix Revolutions , I, Robot , Casanova and Ghost Rider...
(guitar, vocal) aka 'Dag Rattler'. Early practice sessions were in the front room of a Birchgrove
Birchgrove, New South Wales
Birchgrove is a suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Birchgrove is located 5 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Leichhardt....
house where Gooding (and later Rendall) lived. Their first single was a punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
version of Tommy Leonetti's
Tommy Leonetti
Tommy Leonetti was an American pop singer-songwriter and actor of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. In Australia his most famous song was "My City of Sydney" and was used by the Australian TV channel ATN7 in Sydney for station identification into the 1980s...
"My City of Sydney" (1979), which had a promo video showing the four in bed together. Pigott was lead vocalist and bass guitarist in the video. The single received some radio airplay but was not a commercial success. Second 1979 single "Skylab (Son of Telstar)" was written by Rendall but had even less success.
Their next single, "World War Three" (October 1980), produced by Todd Hunter
Todd Hunter
Todd Stuart Hunter is a New Zealand musician and composer known for his involvement in the band Dragon. Their best known songs are "April Sun in Cuba", "Are You Old Enough?", "Still in Love With You", and "Rain"...
and was written by Pigott and Hunter. Rendall left to form Le Hoodoo Gurus
Hoodoo Gurus
Hoodoo Gurus are an Australian rock band, formed in Sydney in 1981, by the mainstay Dave Faulkner and later joined by Richard Grossman , Mark Kingsmill , and Brad Shepherd...
, became a music video director and then a second unit director for the latter two Matrix series movies. He was replaced by Hunter (guitar), Michael Churnside (bass) joined, Anderson left to be replaced by Barry Blackler (drum), Michael Farmer (drum) also joined.
First album was Where's Hank? (March 1981, produced by Hunter). Gooding wrote ten songs including two with Pigott: "Red Bikini Runaway" (single, April 1981) and "Hi Rise Heart". Pigott also wrote "Evelyn". 'Hank' was a German shepherd owned by Rendall: "Hank went to live on a farm at Nambucca Heads". Based on Rendall's and Pigott's recollections, the album title Where's Hank? is a pun on a 1980s TV ad for a chocolate bar: 'Where's George?' The response is ... 'gone for a Tosca!'
For the second album Weeds (October 1981, produced by Hunter) Pigott and Hunter wrote six songs including the single "Igloos", Pigott wrote "Please Excuse Me" and Gooding also wrote six songs. Hunter returned to Dragon
Dragon (band)
Dragon is a popular New Zealand rock band, they were formed in Auckland, New Zealand in January 1972 and relocated to Sydney, Australia in May 1975. They were previously led by singer Marc Hunter and are currently led by his brother bass player Todd Hunter...
late in 1981 and XL Capris dissolved in 1982.
Street poster art
Street Poster Art
Street poster art is a kind of graffiti, more specifically categorized as "street art". Posters are usually hand-made or printed graphics on thin paper...
featuring XL Capris include:
Toby Zoates' 1978 screenprint, XL Capris for the B-side of 1981 single "Red Bikini Runaway" called "K-Tel
K-tel
K-tel International is an "As-Seen-On-TV" company, which is most noted for its compilation music albums, such as "The Super Hits" series, "The Dynamic Hits" series and "The Number One Hits" series...
City" (Gooding) and has the band on the bonnet of a car crashing into a TV game show; and Paul Worstead's 1979 screenprints, Settlement Dance - Scarlet, XL-Capris and XL-Capris, Settlement - Beginning of School Holiday Dance.
Sardine v and Scribble
Pigott briefly joined Sardine vSardine v
Sardine v was an Australian post-punk band, formed by Ian Rilen , and Stephanie Rilen ....
on bass guitar (1982). Video for their 1982 single "Sudan" shows Pigott heavily disguised in a burqa
Burqa
A burqa is an enveloping outer garment worn by women in some Islamic religion to cover their bodies in public places. The burqa is usually understood to be the woman's loose body-covering , plus the head-covering , plus the face-veil .-Etymology:A speculative and unattested etymology...
-like black costume strumming bass to Stephanie Rilen's plaintive vocals and Ian Rilen's
Ian Rilen
Ian William Rilen was an Australian musician, he was bass guitarist and songwriter with Rock N' Roll band Rose Tattoo and led punk rock group X also providing lead guitar, rhythm guitar and vocals...
guitar.
Heartbreak High
Heartbreak High is an Australian television series that ran for seven years from 1994 to 1999. The series dealt with the students of Hartley High, a tough high school in a multi-racial area of Sydney, and proved to be a more gritty and fast-paced show than many of its contemporaries...
episodes #133 & #145 (Series 6, 1998). Pigott's nickname from XL Capris had been 'Alligator Bagg'. The Pop Art cover depicts a stylized version of Pigott. Although achieving some cult interest there was little commercial success for Scribble.
Solo and with Genni Kane
In 1984, Pigott and Hunter wrote Pigott's "Turn It Up" on various artists' album The Nine O'Clock Muse.In 1993, Genni Kane (of the Flying Emus
Flying Emus
Flying Emus were an Australian country/bluegrass band. They won the 1988 ARIA Music Award for Best Country Album for their album This Town. They won CMAA Country Music Awards in 1986 , 1987 , 1988 and 1991...
) and Johanna Pigott released "Starlight Hotel" (Genni Kane, Pigott, John Kane, Hunter) as a CD single.
In 2005, Pigott sang a verse of "ComeDown" by KingJustice on their album What the World Needs Now.
Dragon
During 1983, Pigott and Hunter wrote Dragon'sDragon (band)
Dragon is a popular New Zealand rock band, they were formed in Auckland, New Zealand in January 1972 and relocated to Sydney, Australia in May 1975. They were previously led by singer Marc Hunter and are currently led by his brother bass player Todd Hunter...
come back hit single "Rain". Pigott remembers, "I went from a little underground band to finding myself up the back of the Entertainment Centre hearing 10,000 people sing the chorus of my song." The song reached #2 but was blocked by Austen Tayshus'
Austen Tayshus
Austen Tayshus is the stage name of Jewish Australian comedian Alexander Jacob Gutman. He is best known for the comedy single "Australiana", a spoken word piece filled with Australian puns.-Biography:...
#1 hit "Australiana". Pigott sang "Rain" with Rockmelons
Rockmelons
Rockmelons, often referred to as the Rockies, are an Australian Pop/Dance/R&B group formed in 1983 in Sydney. They are based around Bryon Jones, his brother Jonathon Jones and Raymond Medhurst. They had two Top Five hit singles in the early 1990s with "Ain't No Sunshine" and "That Word ", both sung...
on their album Form 1 Planet (1992) with Hunter (and Rockmelons' Bryon Jones) providing backing vocals. Hunter and Pigott co-wrote other Dragon songs including "Cry" and Pigott was a session musician on Dragon's 1989 album, Bondi Road. Re-formed in 2006, Dragon perform acoustic versions of their earlier work including "Rain".
John Farnham
John FarnhamJohn Farnham
John Peter Farnham, AO, formerly billed as Johnny Farnham , is an English-born Australian pop singer. He was a teen pop idol from 1964 to 1979, and has since forged a career as an adult contemporary singer. His career has mostly been as a solo artist although he briefly replaced Glenn Shorrock as...
had asked Hunter and Pigott to write him a song, they provided a number one hit single, "Age of Reason" (30 July 1988 for four weeks) also on his Age of Reason
Age of Reason (album)
Age of Reason is a studio album by Australian pop singer John Farnham. It was released in Australia on 25 July 1988 and debuted at No. 1 on the Australian Recording Industry Association Albums Chart in August and remained on top for eight weeks...
album which debuted at number one (July 1988). The demo version had been recorded with Todd's brother Marc Hunter
Marc Hunter
Marc Alexander Hunter was a New Zealand rock and pop singer best known as the lead vocalist with Dragon, a band formed by his older brother Todd in Auckland in 1973....
singing lead. Pigott became the first Australian woman to write an Australian number one hit.
Keith Urban
Hunter and Pigott wrote Keith Urban'sKeith Urban
Keith Lionel Urban is a New Zealand-born Australian, country music singer, songwriter and guitarist whose commercial success has been mainly in the United States and Australia. Urban was born in New Zealand and began his career in Australia at an early age...
first single "Only You" (1990), also on his first album, Keith Urban (1991).
TV series
During 1983-1984 Pigott and Gooding created the ABCAustralian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
TV series Sweet and Sour
Sweet and Sour (TV series)
Sweet and Sour is an Australian television series which screened on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1984. It was created by Tim Gooding and Johanna Pigott and was produced internally for the ABC by Jan Chapman...
(1984), they also wrote episodes. Shared experiences in the music industry lent authenticity to their scripts. Pigott also wrote (or co-wrote) four songs for the two soundtrack albums.
The theme song for TV series, Heartbreak High
Heartbreak High
Heartbreak High is an Australian television series that ran for seven years from 1994 to 1999. The series dealt with the students of Hartley High, a tough high school in a multi-racial area of Sydney, and proved to be a more gritty and fast-paced show than many of its contemporaries...
(1994–1999) written by Hunter and Pigott was nominated for the 1994 Australasian Performing Right Association
Australasian Performing Right Association
The Australasian Performing Right Association is a copyright collective representing New Zealand and Australian composers, lyricists and music publishers. The association's head offices located in Sydney Australia, and it has branch offices in Auckland, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth...
(APRA) 'Television Theme of the Year' award
APRA Awards
The APRA Music Awards are several award ceremonies run in Australia and New Zealand by Australasian Performing Right Association to recognise songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance by its members annually....
. Hunter was the composer for the series and, with Pigott, wrote over 20 songs for the series (mostly performed by Abi Tucker
Abi Tucker
Abigail Anne Tucker is an Australian singer-songwriter and actress, best known for acting roles in television shows such as Heartbreak High, The Secret Life of Us and in McLeod's Daughters.-Career:...
, Fleur Beaupert or themselves). Pigott also wrote episode scripts. Episode 61 featured six songs written by Hunter & Pigott: "Down to the River", "Rest in Peace" and "Second Chance" performed by Tucker and Terry Serio; and "You've Changed", "Only You" and "Whatever I Had with You" by Tucker alone. Hunter and Pigott performed their own songs: "I'll Be There" in episode #70, "Gravity and Psyche" #92, "Love Is Here to Stay" #125.
In 1995 a combined American Broadcasting Company
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
and Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
production, ABC's World Of Discovery: Australia's Outback: The Vanishing Frontier, featured music by Pigott, Hunter, Stacey Widelitz and Lee Holdridge
Lee Holdridge
Lee Holdridge is a Haitian-born American television composer and orchestrator.-Biography:He was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, of a Puerto-Rican mother and an American father, the botanist an climatologist Leslie Holdridge...
.
During 2006–2007, TV series, Mortified
Mortified
Mortified was an Australian children's television series, co-produced by the Australian Children's Television Foundation and Enjoy Entertainment for the Nine Network Australia, Disney Australia and the BBC. The series premiered on 30 June 2006 and ended on 11 April 2007 with two seasons and a total...
episodes # 1.7 Flag Fall and # 1.12 Being Me were written by Pigott. Her close friend and former schoolmate, Angela Webber
Angela Webber
Angela Webber was an Australian author, TV writer, producer and comedian.-Early life:Webber was born in 1954 to Bruce Webber, the head of light entertainment for ABC radio, and Nan, a journalist...
, created the TV series and Gooding also wrote scripts for some episodes.
In 2008, Pigott co-wrote the Title Theme (with Hunter) of the new BBC/Southern Star TV Serial Out of the Blue.
Films
The Girl Who Came LateThe Girl Who Came Late
The Girl Who Came Late aka Daydream Believer is a 1991 Australian romantic comedy film starring Miranda Otto, Martin Kemp and Gia Carides; and directed by Kathy Mueller. Otto was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Award for "Best Actress in a Lead Role"...
aka Daydream Believer (1991) had original music by Hunter and Pigott. Pigott performed "I'll Stand By You" for the soundtrack and, with Hunter, wrote: "The Love Theme", "The Polo Factor" and "Nell Rides Out" for the film score. "Daydream Believer is their first major feature film as composers". End titles song performed by Sam Brown, "With You" (Hunter, Pigott, Brown) involved exchanges of tapes and long-distance phone calls.
Alex aka Alex: The Spirit of a Champion (1993) had original music by Hunter and Pigott. "Alex (theme)" aka "Aotearoa" written by Hunter and "For The Rest Of My Life'" by Hunter and Pigott.
Broken English
Broken English (1996 film)
Broken English is a 1996 romantic drama film made in New Zealand. Directed by Gregor Nicholas, it stars Aleksandra Vujcic, Julian Arahanga, Marton Csokas, and Rade Šerbedžija.-Plot:...
(1996) was co-written by Pigott with director Gregor Nicholas and James Salter
James Salter
James Salter is an American novelist and short-story writer. Once a career officer and pilot in the United States Air Force, he abandoned the military profession in 1957 after successful publication of his first novel, The Hunters.After a brief career at film writing and film directing, Salter...
. The New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
film won six awards and is a Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
for Māori Eddie, and an immigrant Croatian
Croats
Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...
Nina.
See also
- List of Old Girls of PLC Sydney