Stefano Ceccherini

6 Australians. Youth memories and passion for the rock band of Michael Hutchence Stefano Ceccherini

These stories were born at night, off the cuff, driven by the urgency to combine apparently detached suggestions, images and riffs: INXS, 6 Australians who came into my life out of the blue and were able to capture and express constant and perfect chemistry, manifesting it through rhythm, as if it were nothing, thanks to a lively, curious and at the same time impulsive frontman, ready to disappear before the eyes of an admiring audience. Dirt is a word which feels like filth, but also soil, something you throw away, but - above all - something potentially fruitful. From an unexpected encounter paired with unusually thick fog, this brief and heartfelt memory aims to turn the tragic epilogue of an artist's life into the urge to revive the vibrancy of constant ideation, a powerful and inebriating energy which fame alone can neither adequately express nor preserve over time.