1.Your Profile
We sound like equal portions apple pie, blue flannie and glitter on a warmer-than-average summer day. I hail from the sticks, am a show pony and create happy alt-country music. The ideal fan keeps me cool on said hot day and can keep a straight face while making fanny puns.
2.Keeping Busy
We have been flat out like a lizard drinking the past few months – it’s been a ball. We completed a successfully funded Pozible campaign for our debut album (which we will be putting down in September/October), a residency at The Vic On The Park in Enmore, a heap of shows up and down the east coast including opening for the Davidson Brothers and playing with Bill Chambers, did our third annual Country Halls tour through the Riverina, went and toured in WA with Ruby Boots, and have just returned from the NT where we sold out our Darwin Festival show… and went camping in Kakadu and I tried to get over my fear of snakes.
3.Best Gig Ever
Country Halls tour shows for sure. Usually in a hall which is in the middle of a paddock or alongside a pub and a church. We get in there, deck it out with lights and sound gear and decorations and then the whole community comes down and parties with us, some having travelled hundreds of kilometres. Everyone brings the kids, the dogs and an esky and has a top night. We just finished one recently and all I’ll say is that things got pretty wild and woolly – I’m still basking in the afterglow.
4.Current Playlist
I’m currently going through a bit of a girl power phase and listening to some great country sass from the US, and have been revisiting a lot of ’90s pop including Belinda Carlisle and Destiny’s Child. I’m loving my tour buddy Ruby Boots’ new EP and am always, always listening to Dolly and Patsy.
5.Your Ultimate Rider
Dried banana chips, tortilla bread (nothing on it), apple pie, fancy Scotch whisky, laksa for Dan, fresh bananas for Preston, a small teacup piglet (been wanting one for a while now), Dolly for moral support and dressing tips, a never-ending supply of multicoloured cowboy boots, rain water and CWA-made sandwiches in little triangles.
Catch Fanny Lumsden And The ThrillseekersatSeek Stumble Listen Live withVanessa Caspersz, Twin Caverns and Little Fox atThe Corner Store, Erskineville onFriday August 29, tickets online.
