Hurt Me - The Jezabels / Performed by Polyphony Choir

Hurt Me
Originally performed by The Jezabels (2009)
Written by Hayley Mary, Heather Shannon, Sam Lockwood, Nik Kaloper
Arranged by Oliver John Cameron http://oliverjohncameron.com/

Performed as part of "Human Behaviour" on June 1st 2024 at Petersham Baptist Church, on Wangal and Gadigal Land (Sydney).

Polyphony’s Human Behaviour program hopes to showcase songwriters and composers at the cutting edge of bottled emotion. It’s in these songs that we rise from the depths but find that we are yearning and lost at sea, feel an ember of desire growing inside, plunge to miserable depths of reckoning, show compassion and empathy to others and ourselves in times of distress, voyage across a landscape of internal fireworks, find an introspective moment in a noisy place, think of a love in a lost time, take off our skin and then our flesh to be vulnerable, bathe in the fire of a new crush and finally serve ourselves for dinner, only to be eaten by the ones we love.

Full digital program for Human Behaviour https://polyphonychoir.com/humanbehav...

Musical director and conductor: Jack Colwell   / jvckcolwell     / jackcolwell_archive  
Pianist and rehearsal accompanist: Paula Lu   / pianopillow   https://www.pianopillow.com/
Cellist: Ruben Palma https://www.rubenpalma.com.au/   / rubenpalma89  
Synthesiser: Tracey Ho https://traceyho.me
Lighting and visual design: Chloe Weeks   / chloeonlights  
Sound engineering and mixing: Lachlan Mitchell https://www.theparliamentstudios.com.au/

Polyphony acknowledges the Gadigal and Wangal People of the Eora Nation as the traditional owners of the lands on which this performance was held. We thank them for their ongoing care and custodianship of the land.