#australian singer-songwriter

[thelensofyashunews]

THE KID LAROI HEATS UP THE SUMMER WITH ANTICIPATED NEW SINGLE “GIRLS”

After sending social media into a frenzy and building widespread anticipation for its arrival, multi-platinum chart-topping global superstar The Kid LAROI delivers his “Song of the Summer” contender “GIRLS” out now via Columbia Records. The accompanying video co-stars fellow Gen-Z icon Alix Earle, and nods to MTV’s bombastic video heyday as the two tap into the late nineties and early 00’s with fun and fiery energy.

Recently, “NIGHTS LIKE THIS” began to surge through pop culture with over 2 million daily streams. In case you missed it, watch the official visual from “the first time tour”.

The Kid LAROI has dominated the conversation this year. PlayStation tapped him for a viral campaign, utilizing “GIRLS” in the trailer to launch “Choose Your Color.” Plus, he emerged as “the first male musician to collab with Gen Z’s favorite LA grocer Erewhon,” concocting and formulizing the “GIRLS” smoothie to go along with the song. A portion of the proceeds from the smoothie will be donated the Laroi foundation, targeting underserved youth in Australia and the US. Earlier this year, he unveiled the single “Still Yours” and his documentary Kids Are Growing Up. The song which was featured in the doc, is a reflective recount of a lost love. Listen HERE. Watch the visualizer HERE. LAROI is currently on ‘THE FIRST TIME TOUR’ which kicked off last month. The 31-date leg hits cities across North America including Seattle, Los Angeles, Denver, Miami, New York, Toronto, Detroit, and more, before wrapping up in Houston on July 22. Special guests glaive and Chase Shakur are support on all North America dates.

[yourdailyqueer]

Starley

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Bisexual

DOB: 3 October 1987

Ethnicity: Mauritian, Filipino, Japanese

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Singer, songwriter

[jenniferslastname]

About me post 🔍

Hi I’m Jennifer,

I’ve been reborn so many times I don’t know when my birthday should be.

I make music in my room & though I regret rushing my first EP (knowing it could’ve turned out better) I’m super proud of some of my songs being played on the local radio!+ triple j unearthed!?! ���🤷🏻‍♀️🫶🏻

However, the (released) song I didn’t rush and am most proud of is Ghost Girl !

I have some bangers set to come out soon I just need to save up to get them professionally mixed and mastered this time! [my other releases weren’t and it shows …]

Hope you guys stick around to find out more!

I’ll be sharing about my comic that goes with my songs eventually too 🌀

~ xoxo Jen 💋

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Jae: Are you a high-maintenance traveler? Hannah: No! In high school, I did this thing called Duke of Ed [international program], where you carry a 10-kilo backpack, carry your tent, portable cooking supplies, food and then go backpacking. It’s about a 24-kilometer hike. It’s like a two-night, three-day type of survival thing. It was really fun and I enjoyed it a lot.

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Noctica

A rising star who’s slaying the local Australian scene, Noctica won’t only be your new favourite artist but also your fashion muse! With years of experience in the scene, Noctica wears many hats confidently (including a crown of course); she is first and foremost a singer/songwriter but on top of that a producer and designer. She finds influence from genre blurring artists like Bring Me The Horizon, Grimes, PVRIS and Linkin Park. Noctica takes aspects from these artists to make her own sound crossing pop with metal while encompassing synths and guitars. This unique blend gives a dark vibe that makes you want to dance. You can hear this in action as Noctica has released her debut single ‘Savior’ this year alongside a captivating music video. The release of this song showed the world that Noctica means business with a strong sound, clean production and killer styling. Noctica says “Savior to me in hindsight is an expression of something I always wanted to say and create in music but was too scared to for the longest time. It's me coming out of my shell and being able to not only be at peace but proud of myself and my art.” I'm so excited to watch Noctica's musical journey! With such a strong debut, there's only great things to come. Don’t worry because if you’re already hooked, there’s a new song being released this Wednesday called ‘Afterlife’. And looking more into the future, Noctica is working on her debut EP which will be a follow up to ‘Savior’ and it should be out early next year. And with most big releases, there's usually tours to go with it so keep your eyes peeled. Until then, get excited, get connected and all hail our new style muse, Noctica! 

Connect with Noctica: 

https://linktr.ee/noctica

[slowandsweet]

RY X - Moths

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday singer songwriter Eric Bogle born September 23rd 1944 in Peebles.

His father was a railway Signalman who could play the bagpipes. Bogle started writing poetry when he was eight years old After attending school until he was sixteen, Bogle worked in various trades: labourer, clerk and barman before emigrating to Australia in 1969.

Eric taught himself to play guitar and joined a skiffle and rock band. He was the leader of Eric and the Informers in Scotland. His early influences were Lonnie Donegan, Elvis Presley and Ewan MacColl. He turned to folk music prior to emigrating to Australia – his first written songs concerned his parents. One of these, “Leaving Nancy”, which sang of the day he left home for Australia, being the last time he saw his mother Nancy, was often covered, most notably by The Dubliners and The Fureys. When living in Canberra he joined the local folk music scene and performed occasionally.

Several of his most famous songs tell of the futility or loss of war. Prominent among these is “And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda”, written in 1971. The lyrics recounts the experiences of a member of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) in the Battle of Gallipoli. It has also been interpreted as a reaction to the Vietnam War.

Another of his best-known songs, “No Man’s Land”, is also World War I-themed. This song is commonly known as “The Green Fields of France”, a title it was first given by The Fureys, and which has subsequently been used in many further cover versions. The song refers to the traditional Scottish song “Flowers of the Forest” being played over the grave of a World War I soldier.

Bogle has undertaken an extensive concert tour of the UK (sometimes including appearances in continental Europe as well), every three years since 1985. These tours have usually included a supporting cast of Australian-based singers and musicians.

On 25 January 1987, Eric Bogle was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia, “In recognition of service to the performing arts as a songwriter and singer”

In May 2001 the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), as part of its 75th Anniversary celebrations, named his song, “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda”, as one of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time.

He may be unknown to many people but I consider Bogle to be as important figure in world music as other Scottish/Australians, Bon Scott. The Young brothers of AC/DC fame and Colin Hay of Men at Work, and as good as the likes of Dougie MacLean, Dick Gaughan and Brian McNeil in Scotland.

[thebestoftragedy]

like my second 'real' concert ever was morrissey when I was 13 and I made my dad take me. awkward when he was sweaty/gross and whipping shirts into the audience. I think he went through like three satin shirts in one show

[mywifeleftme]

325: The Go-Betweens // 16 Lovers Lane

16 Lovers Lane The Go-Betweens 1988, Mushroom

You don’t need to put a gun to my head: I’m a Robert Forster guy. Everyone agrees that Australian jangle pop legends the Go-Betweens had two first-class brilliant songwriters under their tent, but Grant McLennan tends to get the edge in most people’s books, even if they don’t exactly come out and say it. He had the sweeter voice and the more direct way with melody; wrote most of their best-known songs (“Cattle and Cane”; “Bachelor Kisses”; “Streets of Your Town”) and might have the higher overall batting average when it comes to quality; enjoyed the more consistent solo career; even died first. I love Grant! But I’ve always been more drawn to Robert’s wordy complications, his slightly dour, guarded stripes of shadow to Grant’s sunlight. Both very bright men gifted with an ear for melody, both serially doubtful in their lyrics, with McLennan I have the sense that he trusts himself to be guided by feel whereas Forster leads with his intelligence. Normally, the latter would be a minor indictment of an artist, but at Forster’s best the results are neither cold nor stiff. His songs have a complex character in the literary sense, made lively by their contradictions and keenly observed behaviours. When a pristine, jangling hook breaks through his typical reserve, it’s like he’s been moved to sincerity despite himself, and I’m moved in turn.

On 16 Lovers Lane, their last album together before an 11-year hiatus, real-life circumstances conspired to cast each songwriter in their most representative mood. McLennan was in the midst of a relatively new relationship with violinist Amanda Brown, and there’s an impulsiveness to the way his songs document the highs and lows of romance, even as one senses all’s not entirely well under the hood. Meanwhile, Forster writes with the sobriety of hindsight as he grapples with the recent dissolution of his own partnership with drummer Lindy Morrison. (Bassist John Willsteed’s feelings about not having an on-stage date are unknown at this time.) This difference makes 16 Lovers Lane both a relationship record and a breakup record, each songwriter exploring love from his own side of the divide. Grant’s songs are all gems: “Love Goes On!,” “Quiet Heart,” and especially “Devil’s Eye” make the adult work of negotiating life with another person sound like something to dreamily twirl around the house to, while the saucy crazy chick sketch “Was There Anything I Could Do?” rivals the Smiths at their most revved up. His “Streets of Your Town,” the band’s closest thing to a hit, isn’t explicitly about love, but retains the bemused contrast between form and content that marks many of his 16 Lovers songs—the way it’s possible to experience happiness even as the future seems increasingly murky.

It’s Forster’s songs however that raise 16 Lovers Lane from another very good Go-Betweens record to the short list of my all-time favourite rock albums. What makes these songs so poignant is that, while Forster’s insights into his relationships are sensitive, empathetic, even wise, it’s also clear he’s in that daze of post-breakup delusion when you still love someone and aren’t yet ready to accept what “over” really means. I adore the surreal visual, from “Love is a Sign,” that marks his first words on the record: “I’m ten feet underwater / Standing in a sunken canoe / Looking up at the waterlilies / They’re green and violet-blue / Still the sun it finds / A place to light me.” Throughout the song he gently, charmingly acknowledges the real problems at hand, but all he has to offer is the fantasy that one day something will be different, that he’ll be different, and then things will be as they were. The chorus (“This is what I find / No matter what you say / No matter what you do / I want to be the one / And love is a sign”) can read as a declaration of unconditional love, but from another angle, it’s a blanket denial of the possibility that the other person might not be right for him.

Throughout the record, a lot of Forster’s most basic assertions can be immediately disproven. “You Can’t Say No Forever”: The public record shows she could!

“I’m Allright”: A cursory read of the song’s lyrics suggests otherwise!

On “Dive for Your Memory,” he closes the record by declaring:

“Now I dive black waters The waters of her dream Are black and forgetful I'd like to make them clean So when I hear you saying That we stood no chance I'll dive for your memory We stood that chance”

Not having been there, I can’t say whether he’s right or wrong. What happens in this life isn’t fated. But to me it smacks of a man standing at the last station before real acceptance, when you feel that before you can truly let go you must demand some dignity for what you had. It is too galling to endure thinking this relationship you poured your soul into was anything less than a vessel that deserved the commitment; that you squandered your best self on a fantasy. Therefore, it must’ve been a Great Romance, and you bend all of your creative powers to constructing it as such. After enough time has passed, this sort of emotional absolutism fades and you can live with how things really were. But in the moment, there is nothing more terrible to endure than the notion you are performing in a tragedy the other party perceives as a farce.

Despite all this baggage, the wonder is how Forster’s words nestle within absolutely pristine jangle pop songs, sparkly and spangly and crystalline and all the other words critics use to try to pull their sweetness from the air to the page. It was years before I really dug into what Forster was saying because of the way he says it, part Tom Verlaine, part Gene Clark. And, like McLennan with “Streets of Your Town,” he also takes one song off the Rumours beat to offer a more introspective number that both demonstrates his pure pop gifts and summarizes the outlook he brought to the sessions. “Clouds” feels like taking a much-needed walk to clear your head, to get back in touch with who you are at the root:

“Blue air I crave, blue air I breathe They once chopped my heart, The way you chop a tree Told to equate Achievement with pain I took their top prize And paid them back with rain Visions of blue, I’m angry, I’m wise, And you You’re under cloudy skies.”

325/365

[vinkunwildflowerqueen]

So get out of your head And into your heart The road is never too far Love's what it takes It's who we are So keep running back Running back to your heart Back to your heart- Delta Goodrem

[yourdailyqueer]

Wafia Al-Rikabi

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Pansexual

DOB: 4 August 1993

Ethnicity: Iraqi, Syrian

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Singer, songwriter, musician

[marktimmins]

An arrangement of one of my favourite Australian folk songs, “The girls of the shamrock shore.”

[buttherainbowhasabeard]

He IS The Voice

On Monday night, the new music documentary ‘John Farnham: Finding the Voice’ aired on Australian free-to-air television.

Now, I’ve been a fan of his since I was a kid, so not much was new to me. I knew he started young and fresh faced (gorgeous, in fact. Still is really) and that there was an awful lull in his career when radio stations and record companies wouldn’t give him a chance. Nuts. Anyway.

He came back, bigger and better than ever, and the rest (as they say) is history. He’s been legend / GOAT status for decades here, but revisiting all of his music again, in more detail, has been such a joy. He’s not played on the radio as frequently as you’d think these days.

Since Monday, I’ve been re-downloading and playing all of his greatest hits again. As you can imagine, the playlist is long. ‘You’re The Voice’, ‘Age of Reason’, ‘Pressure Down’, ‘That’s Freedom’, ‘Burn for You’, ‘Playing to Win’, ‘A Touch of Paradise’, ‘Every Time You Cry’, ‘Reasons’ etc etc.

However, it’s his incredible live cover of The Beatles’ ‘Help’ with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra that I’ve had mostly on repeat (the video of it on YouTube is simply joyful). I truly think it’s one of the best covers / arrangements of a popular song that I’ve ever heard, and one of the greatest examples of John’s INSANE vocal abilities.

(It’s also worth bearing in mind to that this was his encore after a 2+ HOUR SHOW. The fact he could still sing well at that point, and like this, still blows my mind).

I’ve seen a bunch of vocal coaches watching it recently too and losing their minds over how effortlessly and enthusiastically he tears this song up. The amount of soul and grit and power he puts into these words gets me every time.

He also exhibits that typical Farnham energy, fun, passion and charisma that he has in spades. Whether you’re watching him perform live or interviewed on the TV, the man honestly feels like a friend.

Every part of the rendition is epic, but at the 4 min 35 sec spot in particular, he does a playful run which makes me grin like an idiot!

I still feel so lucky that my dad & I were invited to his The Age Music Victoria Hall Of Fame induction in 2015. He was meant to do a song or two but ended up playing for about an hour and a half, and he was so pitch perfect and so funny!

When we all heard that he had to have emergency mouth surgery late last year, we all held our breath and prayed (no, I’m not religious, but it Farnsy!). There’s such cruel irony in a singer getting throat cancer. It’s been a long recovery, but the recent news from his sons that he is cancer-free and up and about (literally singing and dancing around the house) is the best news.

Being an Aussie, we obviously know John Farnham inside and out and we’re beyond proud of him, but it always saddens me a bit that he never got the international recognition he deserved in his heyday. It seems like a lot of Brits and Americans are only just discovering him now and honestly, he runs rings around most of their “legends”.

John Farnham is Australia’s best kept secret, even though we’re more than happy to share him with the rest of the world!

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Ruth O’Brien

Calling all cat lovers! If you enjoy the company of cats and people who feel like a ray of sunshine on a cold winter’s day, you’ll love Ruth O’Brien. Ruth has been in the music industry for a long time; writing for BMA magazine, running social enterprise Upbeat CBR, mentoring musicians and of course, performing her own original songs. Ruth has played at some notable events such as the National Folk Festival and Australia Day. Through every performance, she brings such grace and joy to the stage and I can tell you that she’s just as lovely off stage too. Ruth finds musical influence from Australian artists such as Kate Miller-Heidke, Jen Cloher and Katie Noonan. She has tones of jazz, soul, pop, folk and classical music in her original songs and aims to write in a way that can connect people from all walks of life. Ruth recently released her 2nd EP ‘Songs for Abby’ which is a collection of tracks dedicated to her cats. This EP shows an intimate view into the relationship she has with her fur babies; the good, the bad and all the funny moments in between. Overall, it’s a refreshing, light-hearted EP which is gentle to listen to and has many stand-out moments. It shines a light on the mischievous things cats do and why we love them so much. The song ‘Love vs Hate’ is about her cat knocking objects off edges leading to smashed items on the floor. ‘She Is’ showcases how cats will wake you up at any time of the day/night without a care for the human body clock. ‘Allergic To You’ sounds like a dark and mysterious love song but it’s the story of Ruth bringing her cat home and learning the logistics of living with allergies. Every cat owner can relate that no matter how many crazy things a cat does, you love them all the same and that your life is truly better with them in it. And if you’re not into cats, maybe this collection of songs can allow you to understand how cat people live. Is Ruth O’Brien our new cat queen? You tell me! Listen to her EP and join the cat loving army now.

Connect with Ruth: https://linktr.ee/ruthmvobrien