Miss Chatelaine

Coco’s Lunch are a long-running women’s vocal ensemble who perform original compositions in a mixture of jazz, world music and folk-pop styles. Lisa Young from the group joins Katie to chat about their new album Misra Chappu, South Indian vocal percussion, performing around Australia and the world (including for Musica Viva and at the Four Winds Festival on NSW Sapphire Coast), and how to keep a group going for so long. There’s also great music by other artists! Here is the playlist:

* Woman Is Moving – Glen Tomasetti

* Pink Butter Cream – darby

* Lost with You – Patrick Watson

* Tha Thin Tha – Coco’s Lunch

* The Baobab – Coco’s Lunch

* Time Heals All Wounds – Wagons

* Let’s Stay Miserable Together – Pamela Claire

* The Loneliest Boy in the World – D. Henry Fenton

* Dig – Fanny Lumsden

Visit Coco’s Lunch’s official website and follow them on Facebook and Twitter.

Above: Coco’s Lunch’s Misra Chappu album cover graphic design by Luke Fraser at Ahr+; photo © Justin Foulkes/Lonely Planet

The fabulous new music just keeps on coming in 2020 – and Katie is grateful to the artists who have given us new work during the pandemic. The first hour of today’s show is nearly all Australian, and includes tracks by Miss Chat favourites Alice Skye and Kim Yang, lots of Melbourne-based artists, and a banger from the UK. Here is the playlist:

* Dominoes – Kim Yang

* Borderlines – Ruby Gill

* Ghosts – David Schaak

* Let the Big Beat Save Your Southern Soul – Tribes of Europe & Barbara Stretch

* Memory Palace – Joelistics

* The River – Harves

* Stormy – Kim Churchill

* How Deep Is Your Love – Mi-Kaisha

* Stay in Bed – Alice Skye

* Night Train – Dan Challis

* I Meant Something to You Once (Revisited) – Mia Dyson

Above: Alice Skye’s ‘Stay in Bed’ single cover artwork by the former prime minister of the National Indigenous Youth Parliament, Aretha Brown

Katie welcomes Melbourne singer-songwriter, pianist and keyboardist Clio Renner back to Miss Chatelaine for a chat about her beautiful debut album, Nothing Breaks, Nothing Mends. We learn that it was on Clio’s bucket list to release an album before she turns 30, that she didn’t write a single song during lockdown, that she loves ABC TV’s The Sound as much as Katie does, and why she is now going by her full name instead of just ‘Clio’. There are some wonderful songs by other artists, too! Here is the playlist:

* Sunflower Girl – Harper Bloom

* Out of Colour – Kingswood

* You’ll Probably Think This Song Is About You – Hachiku

* Slow Burn – Clio Renner

* Nothing Breaks, Nothing Mends – Clio Renner

* The Wind Blows – Michael Dunstan

* City Girl – Gillian Welch

* The Summer – Kim Churchill

* Grey – Xani

Visit Clio’s official website and follow her on Facebook and Instagram.

Above: Photo of Clio by Myka Wallace

Katie plays several tracks by First Nations artists that she couldn’t fit into last week’s NAIDOC Week special, a classic from Australian lesbian icon Judy Small, a reinvented favourite from celebrated Melbourne singer-songwriter and guitarist Mia Dyson, a new release from a Canadian Miss Chatelaine favourite, and more. Here is the playlist:

* Don’t Dream It’s Over – Isaiah + Stan Walker

* Mother, My Teeth Are Expanding – Hannah Schmidli

* Instant Life – David M. Western

* To Be a Woman – Judy Small

* Roll Me Out (Revisited) – Mia Dyson

* Freedom – Dyan Tai

* Long Blue Light – Leif Vollebekk

* Wristwatch – Husky

* Crossover – Emma Donovan & The Putbacks

* First Nation – Midnight Oil ft. Jessica Mauboy & Tasman Keith

* Aunties on My Timeline – The Ancient Bloods

Above: David M. Western’s ‘Instant Life’ single cover photography by Joe Nigel Coleman

A highlight of Katie’s radio year is her annual NAIDOC Week show, and this year is no exception. She celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Australia’s First Nations peoples by playing music by familiar and emerging Indigenous artists. All of the songs are 2020 releases. Here is the playlist:

* Tell Me Why – Archie Roach ft. Sally Dastey

* Terror Australia – Midnight Oil ft. Alice Skye

* Better Things – Kee’ahn

* The Common Good – Luke Daniel Peacock

* Neon Moon – Miiesha ft. The Woorabinda Singers

* Parra Waripa (Red Kangaroo Song) – Jida Gulpilil & David Bridie

* Warrell Creek Song – Emma Donovan & The Putbacks

* Falling – Bumpy

* Ngana Nyunyi – Tilly Tjala Thomas

* Put It On Hold – Mo’Ju

* Move – Baker Boy

* Colours of Your Life – Christine Anu

Above: Deadly Hearts 3 album artwork by Kambarni, an emerging illustrator descended from the Nimunburr and Yawuru people of the Kimberley and the Ballardong Noongar people of the Perth region

Melbourne electronic artist and producer Mo·Louie was last on the show in 2017. She tells Katie what she’s been up to since then – including co-curating the 2020 Midsumma event Fem Fantasy, and producing and releasing her recent ‘Iso Iso Bored’ single and putting together a forthcoming mixtape. Mo’s new single with Youthfire, ‘Survivin’’, gets its premiere radio play! And there’s more great new music from local and international artists. Here is the playlist:

* Peace in the Valley – Gillian Welch

* Neighbours – Stephen Grady

* Go Your Own Way (piano version) – Elizabeth

* Over & Over – MANE

* Survivin’ – Mo·Louie ft. Youthfire

* Monroe – Kingswood

* Book of Whitney – XANI

* Bottle – Autumn Dawn Leader

* Ballad of Bertie Kidd – The Whitlams

* Rise You River – Ell & Hart

Visit Mo·Louie’s official website and follow her on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Above: Photo of Mo·Louie by Stephen Carmichael, edited by Monique Pizzica; artwork by Louise McKnoulty

Melbourne Indie Voices is a choir with 240 regular members, founded and led by local musicians Phia and Joshua Teicher. Katie welcomes Phia back to the show to have a chat about the choir’s forthcoming debut album, Live at the Forum, and about keeping rehearsals going during Melbourne’s lockdown. You’ll hear a couple of songs from the album, along with new releases by some famous artists and some not-so-famous-but-just-as-great artists! Here is the playlist:

* Blood Type – Howlite

* Hard Femme in Argyle – Chloe Alison Escott

* I Miss You More on Sundays – Stephen Grady

* Heartstrings – Phia

* The Seed – Melbourne Indie Voices

* Nameless, Faceless – Melbourne Indie Voices

* The Absence of You – Tim Minchin

* Uluru Statement from the Heart / Come On Down – Midnight Oil ft. Troy Cassar-Daley

* A Beautiful Noise – Alicia Keys & Brandi Carlile

Visit Melbourne Indie Voices’ official website and follow them on Facebook and Instagram.

Above: Melbourne Indie Voices’ Live at the Forum album design by Alex Downie; artwork by Laura Douglas

Lots of more great new music in the first hour today – and it’s all Australian! You’ll hear songs by the mighty Josh Teskey and Ash Grunwald, past guests Xani and Yeo, and Miss Chat favourites Tanya Ransom and The Dreggs, as well as artists new to Katie from Western Australia and Sydney, and well-known artists Elizabeth, Daniel Champagne and Kingswood. Here is the playlist:

* Keepsake – The Dreggs

* Parties (piano version) – Elizabeth

* Manitoba – Daniel Champagne

* Lion – XANI

* You’re the One – James Abberley

* Funny Bones – Swimwear

* 好好的過 (Have a Nice Life) – Yeo ft. Chendy

* Cyclone – Tanya Ransom

* Heart Carousel – Kingswood

* Half Frozen Beer – Jack Davies and The Bush Chooks

* Hungry Heart – Josh Teskey & Ash Grunwald

Above: Kingswood’s Reveries album artwork by Fabian Ardino

Katie has played many songs by Fanny Lumsden on the show, and is delighted to welcome her for a chat about her beautiful ARIA-nominated album Fallow, which was released just before everything was cancelled due to the pandemic. Fanny talks about what the cancellation of her album tour has meant for her (a chance to rest, among other things!), fighting bushfires in January at the property on the western side of Snowy Mountains where she lives, making a documentary about recording Fallow (see embedded video below), returning to touring, and more. There are also a bunch of fabulous new releases by other artists, and a rare classic by k.d. lang. Here is the playlist:

* Somebody’s Beloved – MILCK ft. Bipolar Sunshine

* Beautiful You – The Money War

* These Days – Fanny Lumsden

* Peed in the Pool – Fanny Lumsden

* This Too Shall Pass – Fanny Lumsden

* Surrender – Eastbound Buzz

* Aimee – Lena Anderssen

* Rich – Jess Tyler with Thom Swain

* Secret Love – k.d. lang

Visit Fanny Lumsden’s official website and follow her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Above: Photo of Fanny Lumsden by Dan Stanley Freeman

Katie plays more from the mountain of great new recent releases, including songs by Australian queer artists Saint Barae, Chloe Alison Escott and Mel Pollard. There’s bluegrass from Sturgill Simpson, pillowy pop from Howlite, classic singer-songwriter folk from Stephen Grady, and much, much more. Here is the playlist:

* Hollow – Saint Barae

* Fool – Paige Valentine

* The Common Good – Luke Daniel Peacock

* Canary – Howlite

* Lemon – Local Natives ft. Sharon Van Etten

* Wonder – Stephen Grady

* Half Moon – Chloe Alison Escott

* Lose Control – Mel Pollard

* Greedy – Marét ft. Citizen Kay

* West Coast Dream – Daniel Champagne

* Just Let Go – Sturgill Simpson

* Good Life – Kid Mac ft. Billy Fox

Above: Kid Mac’s ‘Good Life’ single cover design by Amy De Souza