Like any good backyard chemist, Cathy Diver specialises in cooking the world around her into something fizzy, novel or transcendental. Swimming pool sunny, occasionally harrowing, with a psychedelic bent, Cathy’s songs are electrified by her astrologically compatible band.
Cathy has toured significantly, supporting the likes of Julia Jacklin, Tim Rogers and Carla Geneve, as well as co-forming indie label, Undine Records.
Summer 2024 saw her perform with her band at Party in the Paddock, Great Escape Festival and MONA Foma, as well as supporting You Am I and The Dreggs. Her latest single, Holden CX 7349, was featured as a best new video on Rage, and is the first cut off her forthcoming debut album.
Flik's songwriting, brimming with vulnerability, has captured the hearts of her Canberra community, the dreamers and the melancholic. Her lyrics are intricate and emotive, with lines that push and pull into the next and melodies that weave around spacious guitars and shimmering keys. Her live sets enamour with charm, punctuated by awkwardness between songs. As a recording artist with two releases under her belt, 'Bloodbath' and 'Bric a brac,' flik is establishing herself as an emerging artist with a big heart and a big voice. Her forthcoming single, 'Storm Chaser' is perhaps her most relatable work thus far. It is a song about a crush. How it cripples and contorts you. A song about being stuck in a maladaptive daydream and searching for a sign of reciprocity. Recorded and co-produced with Lou Montgomery, as with her previous releases, the track is a shimmering hello/SOS to the world. Spacious and luscious but far from empty, with harmonies stacked around dual acoustic guitars and swirling synths. The hero though, is the chorus. The line, "Storm Chaser" chases a melody like her thoughts chase each other, as she completely leans in and looks up.
Lily Morris is a singer-songwriter from Braidwood, NSW (Yuin country) penning jangly, lyric driven songs about her hometown, growing up, and thoughts that hitch through her head at night.
Her first single ‘Grand Illusions’ (2020) was picked up by Courtney Barnett as one of her ‘Bandcamp Favourites’.
Lily Morris’ sophomore single, ‘Back and Forth’ (released January 28, 2022), is a meditation on life in an evolving hometown and the grey areas of adulthood.
Julia Johnson is an Australian singer, songwriter, producer and multi instrumentalist. Her voice has been compared to Florence Welch, Joni Mitchell, Bat For Lashes, and even a ‘treacherous mountain river’. On stage, Johnson’s warm presence and unpredictable banter usher you in to her folk-tinged musical universe, where she brandishes antique folk instruments with exceptional and unusual techniques.
Julia is a TripleJ Unearthed awarded songwriter who has supported iconic Australian artists including Courtney Barnett, Tim Rogers, Jen Cloher, Bob Evans, and Pete Murray as well as performing at folk and contemporary music festivals such as National Folk Festival and Groovin The Moo.
s.wells is the project of Pat Johnson. Operating on Ngunnawal/Ngambri country, Pat is known for his vulnerable and ethereal brand of folk songwriting. s.wells’ live performances have charmed audiences, with heartful choruses and yearning vocals, stamped with a wry sense of humour. His latest single, ‘Disappointing’ indulges in his alt-country influences with redemption in the form of a sorrowful crescendo. Pat has been gigging in the Canberra region for a number of years, enamoured with its misty evenings and lonely roads.
Yasmine Hosseini is a Perth-born, Canberra-expat, Melbourne-based artist who has been crafting ambient, intricate soundscapes in her bedroom(s) since she was 13. Her shimmering and dreamy songs explore raw, human emotion and her (constant) inner musings.