Here is an introduction to the music that will be showcased at the upcoming Sydney Finders Keepers at CarriageWorks on Friday 2nd & Saturday 3rd December! The live music is FREE for everyone to enjoy. Check out the below for the line up and some snippets of the bio’s of some featured musicians.
Friday, December 2nd
6:00 pm: Annie McKinnon
7:00 pm: Emma Davis
8:00 pm: Ngaiire
9:00 pm: The Fabergettes
Saturday, December 3rd
10:00 am: Jack Sh*t
12:30 pm: Fanny Lumsden
1:30 pm: Achoo! Bless You
2:15 pm: Robert F Cranny
3:00 pm: DJ Dylabolical
Annie McKinnon
Annie McKinnon is a singer songwriter based in Sydney. This 20-year-old has a rich sound ranging from tense and broken, to light and heartfelt. Annie completed her first Australian based tour in Feb 2011 following the independent release of her Debut EP ‘The Endless Run’, Produced by, Wolves (Sam Brumby), and released on the artist run label ‘Peppermint Records’. She was a Sydney University Band Comp Finalist, September 2011 and has recently played on line-ups supporting Ian Moss (Cold Chisel), Jess Harlen (Blue King Brown), Alpha mamma & the love drug (Ngaiire), Oh Mercy and Underlights. Toping the triple j unearthed roots chart 5 weeks running November 2010, featuring on a Valleyarm compilation ‘Absolute Pop 2011’, and scoring track position 1 on Drum Media’s ‘Acid Tapes’ to be released late 2011, this act is rare, and new, and playing for you!
https://www.facebook.com/AnnieMcKinnonBand
Emma Davis
After the release of her debut album and the fantastic reviews that came with it, the
London-born, Sydney-based songwriter has been quietly making waves around the country this year. She’s been on a National Tour with Modular, supported American Folk Artist Lissie and joined Husky on the NSW leg of their ‘Forever So’ Tour. For the winter months, she bunkered down with a casiotone and a hot water bottle and got to work on writing new stories to tell for the spring. With a new single and video clip up her sleeve Emma brings us her delicate tales and humble charm to the Finders Keepers stage.
www.facebook.com/emmadavismusic
Ngaiire
Ngaiire (pron nyree) stands on the triple j 2010 Next Crop list alongside Kimbra, Lanie Lane, The Jezabels and Papa Vs Pretty. The Papua New Guinean born singer-songwriter has built a reputation for herself as one of the country’s most unique and dynamic vocalists and performers creating excitement over her shows at last year’s One Movement Festival in Perth and Peat’s Ridge Festival. Releasing her single ‘Filthy’ in November, the debut album to follow will most likely turn a few heads with its eclectic sound with no partiality to any particular style of writing or listening. Many have failed to define Ngaiire’s music due to the absence of anything like it in the current climate, drawing influence from early 1930′s Disney movies, to the vocal yearnings of jazz great Sarah Vaughan, to the enigmatic cool of Erykah Badu. Combine these and she is her own brand of indie infused soul, a combination that is sure to welcome in 2012 as one of her biggest years yet.
www.facebook.com/ngaiire
The Fabergettes
60’s inspired pop music fronted by three sassy girls with a penchant for all things retro. Think The Shangri-Las meets Best Coast with a dash of The Runaways thrown in for good measure. In the grand tradition of girl power, The Fabergettes continue to show that girls can rock and/or roll! Nat Martin of Cuthbert & the Night Walkers fame heads this new band with blitzing new songs tapping in on the new pop. Playing alongside Aussie acts such as The Jezabels, Paris Wells and Bleeding Knees Club, The Fabergettes also took on 20 bands to bag the title of 2011 Chicks with Picks Band Comp Grand Final Winners. The Fabergettes are hitting the studio to record their debut EP set for release early 2012.
www.facebook.com/Fabergettes
Jack Shit
FBi radio rascal and rabid raconteur Jack Shit found his girlfriend at Finders Keepers. She wasn’t cheap – but she’s lasted pretty well!
www.jackshithouse.com
Fanny Lumsden
Growing up on a farm far out west, near country town Weethalle NSW, singer-songstress FANNY LUMSDEN found her voice surrounded by rolling hills of green, and countless cups of tea. From a family of musicians and parents with a taste for classical tunes, Fanny is creating her own gypsy folk style, embracing the ironies of life and covering them with sunshine covered – country peppered roots.
https://www.facebook.com/fannylumsdenmusic
Achoo! Bless You
Achoo! Bless You are a girl/boy folk duo from Sydney. We are big fans of the toy piano, cheese & wine time and making sweet tunes together. In 2010 in a small bedroom in Sydney’s Inner-West, two young things first began making sweet tunes together. Ross’s penchant for writing ridiculously good pop songs and Ash’s extensive back-catalogue of failed romantic experiences proved the perfect combination for a girl/boy folk/pop/something duo and thus Achoo! Bless You was born.
They love playing live, swapping instruments and telling stories and have supported the likes of Passenger (UK), Matthew Barber (CAN), Dave Graney, Tin Sparrow and The Falls. In June 2011 Achoo! Bless You released a collection of homemade recordings called ‘The Necessary Space’. In true DIY fashion they recorded all the songs at home, designed their own cover art, individually screenprinted and hand-numbered each copy of the limited edition series.
www.facebook.com/achooblessyouband
Robert F. Cranny
Robert F. Cranny was found on the steps of the Cavern Club in Liverpool, England in a basket woven from black-market tobacco. At age three, in alignment with local tradition, he began playing music in the bars and clubs of Hamburg, until he was mistakenly sent home to Liverpool, NSW by a flustered airport employee. He was the school captain of Heckenberg Primary School and has picked no less than six Melbourne Cup winners in his lifetime.
He thinks that people who don’t collaborate on music are as sick and twisted as people who play individual sports. He reads those books you see in airports where some interesting philosophical observation is followed by pages of boring case studies designed to appeal to the middle management types he pushes in front of at the Qantas lounge bar. He likes girls with long tales and cats with green eyes.
DJ Dylabolical
DJ Dylabolical is one of Sydney’s finer purveyors of forgotten retro pop, upbeat genre-defying party tunes from all eras and, for lack of a better term, “chilled cheese”. He currently runs the monthly 60s dance party TWIST AND SHOUT (now at Spectrum) and has previously played at the Sydney Festival, the Gumball Festival, Black Cherry, Shameless, Purple Sneakers, This is Not Art and the Underbelly Arts Festival.
dylabsoundsystem.wordpress.com