TIM GUY + EMILY BARKER (UK/AU)



7.30PM: DOORS
8.00PM: EMILY BARKER
9.00PM: TIM GUY

Tim’s richly varied albums chart the growth of a unique songwriting voice.

There’s two big things that strike you about his music: its worldly, colourful eclecticism and the ease with which he moves through it. It’s big, ambitious music with a real person at its core, marked by an easy confidence that draws you in.

He released his fifth album, “Chords,” in late 2015 to instant acclaim. Teaming up with drummer Gus Franklin (Architecture in Helsinki), bass/synth player Shags Chamberlain (Ariel Pink, Lost Animal), and string arranger Greg Walker (Machine Translations), Guy cut a sharp, catchy, soulful album that’s been described as “stunning” (Tone Deaf) and “brimming with excitement” (Rolling Stone Australia).

Tim will tell you that the whole album, including engineering to tape by Lukas Glickman (Pond) and mixing at the studio of Andy Stewart (Paul Kelly, Gotye), was “a perfect continuation of a chain of fortunate events”. These are words to make any music lover’s heart beat faster, for as we all know, sometimes there are special musical events that seem cosmically ordained – and those are the ones we live for.

Emily Barker grew up in WA, but has made the UK her home and built an acclaimed career in that part of the world. She has released four albums, done extensive global touring, and had her music featured prominently as the theme song in BBC shows Wallander and The Shadow Line. Here is one of those tracks, with no lack of Melbourne references in it!