Artist profile : Dan Kelly
By LACHLAN BRYAN Melbourne artists have a reputation for making interesting, enlightening music and Dan Kelly is no exception. The nephew of legendary Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly, Dan’s musical output could be considered fairly experimental – though he undoubtedly shares his uncle’s pop sensibility. Born and brought up in Brisbane, Kelly moved to Melbourne twenty years ago to study and make music, going under the name Dank...
The Mountain: a coming of age
By MELISSA WALSH Lachlan Bryan is back and forth from his house in Richmond and Mt Eliza but still calls the peninsula home. The 34-year-old country music sensation has done the peninsula proud with his band Lachlan Bryan and The Wildes since their album debut six years ago. The dynamic team has since had three hit albums and released their fourth, The Mountain, on 25 September. The highly anticipated album comes two years after their...
Boy & Bear’s new album out
Written together as a full band and recorded live to tape with Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams, Kings of Leon, Kaiser Chiefs), Boy & Bears third studio album Limit Of Love is has been released. Recorded in the inspirational surroundings of Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studio, Limit Of Love has already been met with great praise across the country. The first single released from the album, Walk the Wire, fuelled by a gritty guitar and synth...
Johnston mesmerises all
By TERRI LEE FATOUROS I caught up with the gorgeous and talented Sarah Frances Johnston at Beach 162 recently and over coffee we chatted about her amazing journey to stardom in the U.S.A and in her hometown of New Zealand. Johnston has been in the public eye since she was 11, starring in the New Zealand soapy called Shortland Street which would probably be equivalent to Australia’s Home and Away. She also starred in a European TV...
Sheena Easton
Abstract Entertainment is proud to announce multiple Grammy Award winner Sheena Easton will be touring Australia later this year. She will be playing in venues across Australia in late November and early December. Sheena Easton is one of the most popular and loved 80s music icons. She gained world-side success for her song Morning Train, which catapulted her career world-wide with international hits including For Your Eyes Only the...
The Wainwright Sisters release debut album
The Wainwright Sisters will be releasing their anticipated new album Songs In The Dark on 13 November. Although they’re sisters, Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche didn’t grow up together. Aside from genetics, their true bond was a musical one, both growing up in families steeped in songwriting. Both their mothers would sing them lullabies (Kate McGarrigle to Martha and Suzzy Roche to Lucy) – now, to honour that 30 years...