Expanding beyond the blues, Jimi Beavis has delved into the depths of soul, gospel, country and rock n roll in his highly anticipated second album Post-Apocalyptic Love Songs - to be released on June 10.

Jimi has been writing songs for more than half his life after becoming obsessed with music of all sorts in his teens. Now an experienced performer and songwriter he is about to release his second album Post-Apocalyptic Love Songs. It is full of the same energy of his passionate, sweaty live performances and punctuated by the superlative musicianship of his groove-laden, horn-driven band and his own harmonica-blowing mastery.

The new album is not content with the usual women and drinking tropes that consisted of his debut Gentleman Giant (2013). Jimi has jammed probing fingers into more eccentric areas of narratives in song that accompany the American-Australian Gothic and the possible apocalypse - anti-heroes that kill and cheat, strangers who love, deathbed requests for cannibalism, jolly odes to dying and persecuted refugees, the facade that hides the lonely famous and our mortality.



There's all kinds of places you could start. Start with Brisbane, folk songs, a critically revered debut under the Carry Nation name. Start with several years as a Melbourne resident, honing a craft and performing alongside Darren Hanlon, Georgia Fair, Laura Jean, Glenn Richards, Washington, McKisko, Laura Imbruglia and Whitley. You could even start with an all-too-brief tenure as a member of Golden Arrow alongside collaborators such as Lisa Mitchell, Lanie Lane and Clare Bowditch.

Jessie Warren has been enchanting audiences for over six years with her dulcet tones and stunningly honest lyricism, The Brisbane-born singer/songwriter has been generating a substantial buzz for her haunting live shows, commanding tunes and unique ability to transfix her audience with equal offerings of strength and fragility. 

Warren's most recent musical endeavour - HALFSHARK, is an all at once triumphant culmination of her work to date and an attempt to evolve beyond it, this is an auteur come into her own at last, finally finding a way to convey ideas long-held and delicately tended to.

A Ballarat boy (Victoria, Australia) from birth, I now reside in London UK.  London life is manic and thus my music production is sporadic.  The tunes on here are a compilation of trial covers with a mate of mine Dave (a bit cliche huh!), my old band Sadhu for which I was the drummer and then there's me doing everything on my own, sorta Dave Grohl style but with electronic drums. Stay tuned for more uploads in the coming months as I just bought an epic Fender Cyber Twin SE amp and it's simply gorgeous!

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