“It’s maybe my only classic love song” explains Bonniesongs. “It’s about the fear of loss with loving someone but it’s a happy song, celebrating love and connection but also highlighting the inevitable future heartache.”
The single has already garnered a big accolade, being a semifinalist in the International
Songwriting Competition 2024 across two categories – Album Alternative and Unsigned.
It is one of the few tracks from Bonniesongs forthcoming album recorded live with her band. “ I
actually sang the chorus melody wrong” explains Bonniesongs, “but the take was so good we had to keep it! I might sing it slightly different live…”

Strangest Feeling

The concept of the song for me is to not take life or myself too seriously and remember to stay fun and joyful, even in weird times. I wrote this song when my kiwi partner and I ended up in New Zealand during the COVID-19 pandemic. After the initial wave of lockdowns was over in NZ, we found ourselves at a local homebrew club where I tried an unreal Belgian cherry sour which brought me joy at a strange time! I recorded it back in Sydney with long-term collaborator David Trumpmanis between his studio in St Peters and Golden Retriever Studios. I laid down the vocals, guitar and drums before Rhys and Tom added lashings of guitar and bass. The track bleeds into a little experimental jam we named “Stay Fun”, produced by Alyx Dennison.

Bittersweet

I originally recorded guitar, drums and voice with David Trumpmanis but we couldn’t get the vibe quite right. It was sounding folky and flowy and needed more edge. Alyx Dennison stepped in to help us produce the track to it’s rockier fate. We sped it up, rerecorded the drums and added bass. It’s my classic rock band line up of Rhys Mottley on second guitar, Tom Botting on bass, and Tully Ryan on drums. We really liked the drums in Deerhunter track Never Stops and wanted that driving energy throughout the track. 
I wrote Olive Oil while staying at my friends house in Wellington. I had recently started a game with friends where we list off our top 5 favourites thing. Olive oil, ocean, sunshine are some things that bring me joy. I wanted a happy, light content song.

Olive Oil


A typically finely crafted cut of lo-fi magic from the songwriter, ‘Halloween Birthday’ swells and swirls with a heady vocal refrain over her signature lurching drum work, with subtle string sections flourishing and billowing beneath gently plucked, stripped-back guitar layers.

Commenting on the track, Bonnie says: “Halloween Birthday is a nostalgic song that celebrates my obsession with all things Halloween with a yearning desire to have it all. Being from Ireland, where Halloween is taken very seriously, I’ve often been inspired by the spooky and supernatural. I’m interested in creating a sense of otherworldliness which is what Halloween is all about! The lyrics are literally inspired by my childhood anxiety of getting to my friends’ birthday party, as well as trick or treating before all the good sweets were gone.”

Halloween Birthday

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