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You'll know Katy from Perth band Little Birdy who made huge waves around Australia with their three albums. Brother is from their last, Confetti.

Brother is a deeply personal song – it's vulnerable and tells the story of her brother Luke Steele [formerly The Sleepy Jackson and Empire of the Sun] and their father, blues musician Rick Steele.

It starts with the lyrics:
My Brother he taught me how to fly
My Papa he taught me how to cry

Listen to Brother - YouTube or Spotify

 

Katy’s new album Human is almost ready for release.

She describes it as her summer pop album.

You can find Katy Steele on Spotify, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and her website at katysteele.com.

 

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About the host Jane Rocca

Jane lives in Melbourne and has been writing about fashion, music and lifestyle over two decades.

She’s written for Australia’s best music publications; Rolling Stone, Loudmouth, Hot Metal, The Face, i-D UK and more.

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You might know Alex from his band Oh Mercy, or his new project Perfect Moment.

He’s chosen the song Lady Eucalyptus from his acclaimed and ARIA award winning album “When we talk about love” released in 2015

Listen to Lady Eucalyptus on Spotify

 

Alex is the host of One Guitar, an amazing podcast where he sends the same guitar to some of Australia's best singer-songwriters.

They write a brand new song and perform it on the show.

Search for One Guitar in your podcast app or here - mushroom.com/podcast/one-guitar

 

More about Alex's new project Perfect Moment

Perfect Moment is a daring project that reveals an artist comfortable with his past and excited about his musical future.

Gow’s 2021 output serves as evidence that he remains, without doubt, one of Australia’s finest songwriters.

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Jane lives in Melbourne and has been writing about fashion, music and lifestyle over two decades.

She’s written for Australia’s best music publications; Rolling Stone, Loudmouth, Hot Metal, The Face, i-D UK and more.

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Web - Some of My Best Work

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The song first found prominence overseas, by accident, on a Scottish mountain biking video that went viral.

 

Hayley Mary's solo EP, The Drip, is out now

More Hayley Mary here - www.hayleymary.com

 

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Jane lives in Melbourne and has been writing about fashion, music and lifestyle over two decades.

She’s written for Australia’s best music publications; Rolling Stone, Loudmouth, Hot Metal, The Face, i-D UK and more.

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Magic came about at a personally disruptive time in Pip's life, around 2007-2008.

Though musically she'd found a producer partner in Pascal Gabriel.

 

Ladyhawke Aus Tour 2021 - https://www.frontiertouring.com/ladyhawke

Listen to Magic on YouTube and Spotify

Magic on Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(Ladyhawke_song)

 

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Abby had Give Me Love written in 2014, but it wasn't until 4 years later that she began to record it in Nashville Tennessee.

The words came first, which is always a good sign in her process. Then, with her nephews and Paul Mac, she managed to complete it to a point that it's become some of her best work.

 

Listen to Give Me Love on YouTube or Spotify

 

Abby also mentions her other project...

BABY ET LULU - www.babyetlulu.com.au

Album Trois to be released Friday 3 September

Single ‘Paris Sera Toujours Paris’
New single 'La Ballade De La Mer'

‘Album Trois Tour’ Oct-Nov 2021

 

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Jane lives in Melbourne and has been writing about fashion, music and lifestyle over two decades.

She’s written for Australia’s best music publications; Rolling Stone, Loudmouth, Hot Metal, The Face, i-D UK and more.

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Some of her best work is the song Trust is Rust, from her second solo studio album All Day Venus released in 2013.

"Trust is Rust is the benchmark for me. So the thing I take away from that is 'Can I write a better song than that?' That's that's where I'm at. And I don't know if I can."


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About the host Jane Rocca

Jane lives in Melbourne and has been writing about fashion, music and lifestyle over two decades.

She’s written for Australia’s best music publications; Rolling Stone, Loudmouth, Hot Metal, The Face, i-D UK and more.

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Web - Some of My Best Work

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180 Grams - season one is a documentary about The Teskey Brothers difficult, but quite remarkable, second studio album Run Home Slow.

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Jack River, a.k.a Holly Rankin, was roaming New York and stumbled upon something "shining in the light."

The song would eventually go Platinum (after gold) while bringing her out of a tough time in her career.

Fool's Gold - Wikipedia

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She’s written for Australia’s best music publications; Rolling Stone, Loudmouth, Hot Metal, The Face, i-D UK and more.

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Web - Some of My Best Work

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Jack Froggatt and Lachlan Bostock, two of the three members of Sydney band Mansionair.

Alex Nicholls is the third, he plays the drums.

In 2014 they uploaded a track called Hold Me Down, landed a record deal and international tours with Churches, Alt-J, Florence and the Machine and London Grammar.

After all the touring the band arrive back in Sydney, it’s 2016.

Easier is inspired by a scene from Lost in Translation where Scarlett Johansson asks Bill Murray, "I'm stuck. Does it get easier?"

Listen to the song here - YouTube / Spotify

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She’s written for Australia’s best music publications; Rolling Stone, Loudmouth, Hot Metal, The Face, i-D UK and more.

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Gordi’s latest album Our Two Skins came out in 2020 and featured songs written while touring around the world.

She's chosen Volcanic, from that album, as some of her best work.

She began writing the song in Stockholm, recording an initial demo on a hotel's grand piano.

Though it all came together in Berlin inside a seemingly chaotic new location.

"I was searching for a space to sort of just start doing some of my own writing. And I came into this big warehouse.

"And there was all this, like, metal work being done around me. But it was kind of cool, because it meant I could just like, go for it."

Since it's release the song's garnered an emotional response from fans.

"Someone wrote to me saying, 'Volcanic, like, I've never heard a song so sort of aptly capture what it feels like to panic.'"

More about Gordi, a.k.a Sophie Payten here.

 

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Ever wonder how an artistic high point is reached in a creative career?

Host Jane Rocca speaks with artists about how they came to create some of their best work.

It need not be their most well known or popular work but it is the artists' choice.

 

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Starting out with; Gordi, Jack River, Alex Gow, Adalita, Hayley Mary, Ladyhawke, Mansionair and more.

 

About the host Jane Rocca

Jane lives in Melbourne and has been writing about fashion, music and lifestyle over two decades.

She’s written for Australia’s best music publications; Rolling Stone, Loudmouth, Hot Metal, The Face, i-D UK and more.

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Web - Some of My Best Work

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180 Grams - season one is a documentary about The Teskey Brothers difficult, but quite remarkable, second studio album Run Home Slow.

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