04 August (Mon) - Lisa Crawley + Holly Throsby...

04 August (Mon) -  Lisa Crawley + Holly Throsby + Matt Mitchinson + Chester Travis

DOORS : 7:30pm 

LISA CRAWLEY

On stage : TBC 

Currently based in London, Lisa Crawley is a 21-year old New Zealand singer/songwriter. She mainly sits at the piano but also knows how to play the omnichord, and the banjo. She can also sing like an angel, or something just as nice but less cliche. Yes. 

HOLLY THROSBY

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Holly Throsby is from Sydney, Australia. Her first album was released in 2004. It was called On Night and it was recorded in a tiny house on Saddleback Mountain on the south coast of NSW.

Her second album is called Under the Town and it was released in July 2006. Under the Town was recorded in the same house on the same mountain, but this time more people came up and they brought more instruments to play along with. (Many instruments were played by Tony Dupe. He lives in the house and produced both the albums.)

In the last few years Holly has toured Australia many times and has played on various tours in the UK, Europe, America and Canada. She has toured on her own, with her band, and in support of artists such as Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Joanna Newsom, Bill Callahan, Andrew Bird, The Frames, Mark Kozelek, M. Ward, Devendra Banhart and Low.

In 2006 Holly was nominated for an ARIA award for Best Female Artist here in Australia but, you know, didn't win. Apart from music she is interested in 20th century literature, political intrigue, humour, naive art and dogs.
 

MATT MITCHINSON

On stage : TBC 

CHESTER TRAVIS

On stage : TBC 

Hailing from Canterbury, New Zealand, Chester Travis does not conform to the local reference of a "one-eyed Cantabrian". Chester is without doubt a "two-eyed Cantabrian" with one eye firmly focused on his piano and the other fixated on his guitar. With a reputation for melodies and lyrics and on occasion the two together, Travis shares a life full of experience. Chester first learnt about notes and quavers and stuff on the piano, learning from the age of seven. Guitar, however, came later and with much more struggle, though not musically. At twelve years old Chester begged his parents for a guitar. Unfortunately, one year earlier Chester had also begged, pleaded, haggled and bargained for a unicycle, every child�s dream. Young Travis got what he had cried so loud for...and never used it. The unicycle left without even another wheel to keep it company. So when Chester went through the same ordeal a year on, Mum and Dad were suitably sceptical. Obviously Chester received his wish of a guitar which he promptly started teaching to himself. When he was about 13 or 14 Chester trasped through Europe with his family. While they were living on a barge, on a french canal, in a tiny tiny French town called Le Someil, the lack of Buxom French (and also not really hairy ladies under 70) caused Chester immense boredom and frustration. This frustration and boredom would cause him to ride off into vineyards day after day on a wee French bicycle with a guitar on his back, where he taught himself to write original material. A �Kiwi� with strong international influences, Chester�s work has to date culminated in the critically acclaimed debut EP, "7", released in May 2007. Real Groove magazine called it "a portent of greatness" while the Christchurch Press dubbed the incredible debut mark as "a slice of pan baked heaven". And Chester�s mum almost fainted with pride. Much of the material is now back in the oven, preparing for a full debut album which will, no doubt, confirm the suspicions of fans and critics alike that Chester�s musical stamp will make a huge mark on the international stage.