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Where are you currently based and what is the music scene like there? I live in South Yarra Melbourne surrounded by yummy mummy’s in range drovers. Inspiring stuff. The music scene in strong in though. I’ve been so lucky to be introduced to some incredibly talented producers and musicians that have helped take my music to a place I would never have dreamed of when I was younger. People have been so supportive with my music down here. I’m currently working on a new track with a friend Alex O’Gorman whose a dream to work with. I’m super excited to show put it out. Alex produces and plays bass with Angie McMahon. He’s also just a true gentleman, the kind of people I’ve met in Melbourne. Truly kind people. Also, I live with two musicians, my girlfriend and brother.
How did you first start playing music? My Dad bought Mum an upright piano for her 40th birthday. She never played it. So I always used to pull up the lid and try knock out some early Coldplay tracks. I just taught myself by ear how to play that now cringe song ‘Clocks’. I started playing music by copying the bands I listened to when I was about 8 or 9. Whatever my family was listening to. My brother was heavily into bands like Interpol, Kings of Leon, The Strokes. So that’s what I was trying to play. That was my first time on a piano. My brother played drums. He was 16, I was 9, and I used to sit against his bedroom door tapping out the drums he was playing. Then when ever he’d let me, or if he was out, I’d go into his room and play the drums. So I was playing drums and trying to learn piano really early.
Who or what influences your sound and songwriting? My Brother and girlfriend definitely have a huge influence on my sound. My girlfriend is also a beautiful musician and has really great taste in music so a lot of stuff passes through her, which I love because she’s such a great songwriter. Also my brother, because, well he’s my big brother. You look up to your older bother and he’s always had such great taste in music which led me to some stuff I wouldn’t have heard at a young age if it wasn’t for him. As for what influences my music, I think that ageing has helped. Having new perspectives on life helps with the lyrical parts and the sound just slowly progresses I think. I hope. I write about the relationships around me. One’s involving me and always ones I see.
How do you usually go about writing music? I almost every time start with a drum beat. I might hear a melody in my head first but I always start with the beat then layer everything over the top. I use Linn Drum samples to program the beats into my pedal then layer synthesisers, then take it into the studio and put live instruments over the top. It usually happens really fast. I’m a master of starting songs and not finishing them, but when the right song comes out I’ll finish it because I know it’s ‘the one’ to finish.
Tell us about how your brother has played a part in your sound and musical taste: Your debut single ‘How Many Times’ is out now, where and when did you record? He’s just that classic older brother who influences the little bother. He tried to push me out of music a little bit because he knew how hard it was/is going to be. He’s been in it for nearly 15 years now so it takes it’s toll I guess. But he’s always taught me to be true to myself and reflect that in my music. He always coaches the best stuff out of me. It comes into the studio and plays drums on my tracks and usually ends up co-producing on the work. He’s got incredible ears and knowledge I completely trust his word. Musically.
How did this track come about? A close friend hurt me, I wrote a song about it. I don’t want to delve into it to much. I’ve made plenty of horrible mistakes myself and we’re good friends now. It’s a revenge track. It definitely helped.
You’ve just released a music video for ‘How Many Times’ please tell us how this video came to be: I really wanted to focus on the colours and camera movement in the video. Editing was always going to play a huge role. We just wanted to create something that enhanced the music. Not focus
on story to much, just try and match the image and audio for an easy watch. I hope that’s what we did. It’s no Childish Gambino, ‘This Is America’, it’s more ‘This a halfway house in Kew’. The director Jack Ralph and I just wanted to have fun with it. Not take it to seriously. The shoot ran from 2 pm till 1 am. We shot it it in my friends house which is quite literally the dankest house through winter, and not in a good dank way. A bad dank way.
What do you like to do away from music? Walk dogs, hang out in drive ways. Lawn bowls in the summer. Kick the footy. Shoot hoops. Golf a lot. Snowboard in the winter.
Who are you listening to at the moment? I’m listening to heaps of Randy Newman, Nick Drake and Brian Jones Town Massacre at the moment. Oh and Twin Peaks. I saw them at the Northcote Social Club a few weeks ago and the general feeling between friends was that it was the best show we think we’d ever seen. I know, big call! But it really was. They were just absolutely shredding and having so much fun. I think everyone in the room could feel it.
What do you have planned for the remainder of 2018 going into 2019? I’m currently finishing off my next single which I’m so so excited to release. It’s very different from ‘How Many Times’ energy wise, slower tempo, more instrumental but it’s still super poppy. This one’s got some real creamy bass, heaps of percussion and hopefully will make you want to dim the lights and swing your partner round on the porch. I actually wrote it the day after I saw Michael Kiwanuka at The Corner Hotel. That was also one of the best shows i’ve ever seen, close second behind Twin Peaks. I’m planning on releasing that with a run of shows early Feb next year.
Favourite food and place to hangout? Chicken Pot Pie, (Mum’s specialty). There are some really great parks and trails around the Yarra River just out of the city. I love going there with my girlfriend and all our friends and a couple of dogs they have. That’s quite simply my perfect afternoon. You forget you’re in the city for a moment which is always nice.
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Wollongong born artist Kay Proudlove didn’t intend to write a Christmas song this year, but it’s happened and it’s not what you’d expect. Forget Bublé, bubbles and Christmas baubles, Kay is diving deep into the not-so-shiny parts of this tinsel laden season in her new track ‘Gift Card’ out today. Riddled, as always with clever wit, honesty and heart-on-her-sleeve raw emotion, the single actually doesn’t stray to far from what we’ve come to expect from the rising talent, and is likely to become another crowd favourite when she takes on a string of upcoming live shows this silly season.
With a remarkably agile, soul-bearing voice and a wry sense of humour, Kay Proudlovehas always written songs driven by narrative and powered by her love for the art of observation. On ‘Gift Card’, Kay covers everything from the financial and social stresses of Santa’s impeding visit, to the joy of witnessing pure human connection and of course, those thoughtful and not-so-thoughtful gifts – “surprise, it’s a gift card”. Mixed and mastered by Ben Davies at Silver Sound Recording Studio in Wollongong, ‘Gift Card’ is a classic folk sing-a-long, stripped back to its most pure to let Kay’s vocals and message shine through.
STREAM / EMBED ‘GIFT CARD’ VIA SPOTIFY
“The inspiration for ‘Gift Card’ came on a day when three separate people told me they couldn’t believe it was nearly Christmas. This was in October. It struck me that it’s something people say every year, which got me thinking about what people go through around Christmas – good and bad. I feel like there’s always this sense of time slipping away and that no one is ever prepared. But it can still be kind of exciting, which is where the lyrics ‘magical and desperate’ come from. There are so many mixed feelings about the festive season and I tried to capture some of those in this song. It’s very much a biographical track and I have definitely attended church straight after Christmas Eve drinks before.” – Kay Proudlove
Kay Proudlove’s live performance style is much like being invited into her lounge room; her songs are truly stories set to melody, by turns relatable, humorous and heartbreaking. The co-ordination that never showed up for Kay on any sort of sporting field has made itself known in a marriage of acoustic guitar and voice, with lyrics that can be equally poignant and hilarious in a single instance. Creating an intimacy between audience and performer through vulnerability, Kay’s live show is likely to leave you wondering whether all of the songs were about you.
After touring her live album I Should Have Done This Ages Ago and playing a bucket list of Festivals such as the Woodford Folk Festival, By The Banks Music Festival,Jamberoo Music Festival, as well as supporting artists such as Shaun Kirk, Tom Lee-Richards, Caiti Baker, Stevie Jean, The Northern Folk and more, Kay is excited to be bringing in the festive season with a bunch of live performances this summer.
Upcoming Shows:
Friday 7 December
She’ll Be Right (female variety show)
Servo Food Truck Bar, Port Kembla, NSW
Doors 7pm
Tickets
Wednesday 19 December
Puckey’s Christmas Market
University of Wollongong, Innovation campus
Wollongong, NSW
Doors 5pm
Free Entry
Monday 31 December
19-twenty NYE Party
Shoalhaven Heads Bowling and Recreation Club
Shoalhaven Heads, NSW
Tickets
Sunday 6 January
Summer Meadow Music
Marakoopa Cafe, Mole Creek, Tasmania
with Bruce Watson (Australian Folk Icon), Kenta Hayashi (Japanese Loop Pedal), Midnight Messengers (Tasmanian Reggae band)
Tickets
Friday 11 January – Sunday 13 January
Cygnet Folk Festival
Cygnet, Tasmania
Tickets
Saturday 19 January
Illawarra Folk Festival
Bulli, NSW
Tickets
Wednesday 23 January
Rad Bar, Wollongong
supporting Wolf and Willow + Rob Edwards
Tickets
‘Gift Card’ is out now via Ditto
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Grace Turner plays a final hand for 2018 with gutsy end-of-year single ‘Easy I Fall’, a fierce progression from her previous heart-stopper ‘Dead or Alive’
Streaming over 500,000 times since release, ‘Dead or Alive’ landed the Newcastle based singer-songwriter in Spotify US’ Viral 50, peaking at #24. Receiving triple j airplay, rotation on triple j unearthed, Double J, FBi Radio and love from community radio across the country, ‘Dead or Alive’ was also included in Apple Music’s ‘Best of the Week.’
Now, Grace offers a fresh perspective in ‘Easy I Fall’. Written at the same time as ‘Dead or Alive’, ‘Easy I Fall’ was recorded slowly over a year between a back shed and a spare bedroom. This final iteration hits hard up front with its intentionally abrupt opening line ‘If you wanna fuck me then just tell me that you love me…”
Turner explains “This song is about being tirelessly perused. I used to play it first in my set to shock people into listening to me. I often joke in my live show that it’s about trying to break up with someone but sleeping with them instead. In a deeper sense it’s about power imbalances in relationships, not being listened to and putting someone’s wants and needs above your own.”
A captivating troubadour, Grace often has her audiences at a standstill, with those present hooked on her every note. Turner has so far supported Alex the Astronaut, Gabriella Cohen, Jess Locke, Kingswoodand Phil Jamieson (Grinspoon) in 2018 and recently played tastemaker festivals FKA Festivaland Against the Grain. Soon she and her band head to Festival of the Sun and Mountain Sounds Festival with more shows to be announced in 2019.
With ‘Easy I Fall’ marking just the third official release from Grace Turner, everyone is already falling hard for this rising talent.
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Sub Pop has signed the enigmatic country singer Orville Peck, who will release his debut for the label in 2019. Combining the lulling ambience of shoegaze with the iconic melodies and vocal prowess of classic American country music, enigmatic outlaw cowboy – Orville Peck, croons love and loss from the badlands of North America. The resulting sound is one completely his own – taking the listener down dusty rose-colored desert highways; through a world where worn out gamblers, road-dogs and lovesick hustlers drift in and out of his masked gaze. Orville’s music will be available worldwide from Sub Pop, with the exception of Canada through Royal Mountain Records.His first single for “Big Sky” is a campfire lullaby of Orville’s past lovers. He sings about his relationships – with an aloof biker, an abusive boxer and an overly protective jailor in the Florida Keys – and the inevitable demise of each one, as Orville leaves them for the wide open big sky. Watch his official video for the song, directed by Deni Cheng, which follows our anti-hero as he travels through his America, waiting for time to pass.
Orville Peck’s late winter and spring international tour schedule for 2019 currently spans January 4th-May 12th. Highlights include: Canadian shows on January 4th in Toronto and January 5th in Hamilton; A three-date London, UK residency February 28th-March 2nd, immediately followed by shows in Amsterdam on March 5th and Berlin on March 6th; And in May, he’ll be supporting Lord Huron on a string of midwest-southwestern US dates May 6th-May 12th. Additional live dates will be announced in the new year.
See Orville Peck live:
Jan. 04 – Hamilton, ON – Casbah (Exclaim! Class of 2019 showcase)
Jan. 05 – Toronto, ON – The Monarch (Exclaim! Class of 2019 showcase)
Feb. 28 – London, UK – Islington
Mar. 01 – London, UK – Servant Jazz Quarters
Mar. 02 – London, UK – The Shacklewell Arms
Mar. 05 – Amsterdam, NL – Sugarfactory
Mar. 06 – Berlin, DE – Auster-Club
May 06 – Columbia, MO – The Blue Note*
May 07 – Oklahoma City, OK – The Criterion*
May 09 – El Paso, TX – Lowbrow Palace*
May 10 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theatre*
May 11 – Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theatre*
May 12 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren*
* w/ Lord Huron
Alex Niggemann had a vision to “launch a label that mirrors diversity”. Now, in 2018, his absorbing AEON imprint celebrates five years in the business. To mark this pivotal moment a celebratory film was commissioned.
AEON carefully selects each release to move their vision forward, showcasing and building an ever-evolving family of exceptionally talented artists and like-minded souls.
For those people with open minds and open ears, electronic music doesn’t really have borders – blurring the boundaries between house and techno is a given – creativity and experimentation without restrictions and expectations is what allows artists to make exceptional music that becomes timeless and treasured.
AEON is a home to cutting-edge artists who are bold enough to breathe life into their productions with true emotion. AEON stands for people who walk their own path, who dance just the way they feel, celebrating and being passionate about what they do without following rules.
AEON 5 Years Compilation. Released 7th December on AEON Pre-order link here
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“Playful and infectious in equal measure, “Keep The LIght On” is a welcome change from the usual wintry gloom” – Complex Magazine
Danish-Jamaican songstress Iris Gold is pleased to announce details of a brand new single ´Keep The Light On´ due 30th November.
She says: “The Song is about meeting up with an ex for a chat and some kind of closure, but your ex is on some seductive, Barry White, barritone and incense. And Its just about wanting to keep the light and keep things above board in the midst of all the sauciness”.
The lyrics and idea for ´Keep The Light On´ was conceived awhile back but was kept on the shelves till now. When Iris heard a special beat by the Danish producer-group Pitchshifters, she immediately knew that the song had finally found its place. That production accompanied by her rap in the verses and her singing in the chorus, rounded off beautifully by just a touch of some chilled brass. ´Keep The Light On´ has a slower and more subdued sound, that fits the meditative theme. A theme that describes the period after two lovers have broken up. A time between the last love in the relationship and the complete liberation from each other as ex-lovers. But where you still hold strong feelings for each other and deep inside know its not the best of ideas to give in, let go and turn off the lights, even for just one night.
Iris Gold made her debut in 2015 with the song ´Goldmine´ that quickly got the attention from the music business, who were smitten by her style and unique musical talents, and offers to support established stars like Miguel, Taylor Swift and Robbie Williams came quickly. She has since established herself in Denmark and abroad as a new, true talent among her peers in the music business.
Iris Gold was born in London, but grew up in Denmark in Freetown Christiania surrounded by music and progressive culture. Iris had been singing and rapping since she from an early age was introduced to hip hop, reggae and psychedelic-pop/rock music, music that has left a great impact on the music she makes today: A riveting mix of pop, R&B, hip hop and soul, alongside the poetry and storytelling in her songwriting.
2018 has been an amazing year for Iris Gold who has toured around Europe, having done more than 80 shows. The rest of this year and into 2019 offer even more great things for Iris Gold. She is playing a unique and exclusive concert at the historic Betty Nansen Theatre in Copenhagen on December 1st called Iris Gold Iscenesat. The concert is arranged by Betty Nansen Theatre and Roskilde Festival, who works to merge music and art. Furthermore, she is also playing both the annual Eurosonic Festival in The Netherlands this January and FOCUS Festival in Wales this May.
……also, there’s a debut album on the way.
“Copenhagen-raised songstress Iris Gold is winning us over with her eclectic blend of old school hip hop, sunshine pop and trippy beats.” – Wonderland
“Offers a wonderfully carefree contrast to the glut of grim-lipped overthinkers” – Line of Best Fit
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Willaris. K today shares a new two-track release featuring lead single ‘Natural Selection’ which premiered on triple j’s Good Nights with Bridget Hustwaite overnight and ‘Cobaki Sky (Prequel)’ out now via Soothsayer. Listen to it HERE.
‘Natural Selection’ was first played at Forbidden Fruit Festival in Dublin to rapturous reception and continued to be a live favourite throughout the year across headline shows and festival crowds.
Of the track, Jack McAllister says, “Natural Selection/Cobaki Sky (Prequel) represents personal change and growth. Evolution. The Alchemy tour was the end of the Alchemy era for me and these are the first pieces of music coming from the perspective of my current life and the last 18 months.“
‘Natural Selection’ is the first from the Australian producer since his debut Alchemy EP and follows his sold out headline tour across Metro Theatres and Corner Hotels around the country. Second track ‘Cobaki Sky (Prequel)’ (pronounced “Kobba-KIE”), named after the sleepy township with a population of 225 outside Tweed Heads where Jack grew up, is the first part of a beautiful cinematic work and features additional production from George Nicholas of Seekae.
The two-track wraps up a busy year for Willaris. K who offered a slew of impressive releases form his breakout debut single ‘Alchemy’ to ‘River Song’, ‘Dour Nights’ and ‘Risen’, all of which have set him apart and on top of the thriving Australian electronic landscape with his unique take on arresting techno that is at once uplifting and ominous. McAllister continued through the year garnering fans across the globe including the country’s national youth broadcasting station triple j, BBC 1’s Pete Tong, multiple sold out national headline tours and acclaimed festival plays including Coachella Music & Arts Festival, Watergate Berlin, Bigsound, Laneway Festival, Splendour In The Grass, Split Milk and more. Willaris. K will round out the year with two explosive sets at New Year Festivals Beyond The Valley and Lost Paradise.
‘Natural Selection / Cobaki Sky (Prequel)’ is out now via Soothsayer, buy/stream it here.
UPCOMING TOUR DATES
29 December – Beyond The Valley – VIC
30 December – Lost Paradise – NSW
9 March 2019 – Days Like This – NSW
+ More Australian and international shows announced soon
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