Bertie dropped onto the bench and took a swig of, what?  Could have been whiskey, could have been juice. She’d peeled all the labels off a long time ago. Dusk. It was her favourite time: the orange eye of the sun, bored and falling fast, the empty streets, the smell of the dark winding round her legs. She curled her spine and pressed deeper into the wooden slats of the bench, like an attic ladder against her back. She settled in to watch. This was the time for shadow chasers, when hurt was in the air and the bins overflowed with silent hopes and crumpled dreams. 

She flicked through the menu on her iPod. Headway, The Only One, from the soundtrack of Hey Hey It’s Esther Blueburger, Black, Secrets and Lies and a cover of Peek-a-boo by Siouxsie and the Banshees. And this new one, Pope Innocent X.

Her thumb hovered over the button, one cracking eye to unleash the loneliness of everything. She hesitated. Took another swig and winced as she swallowed. Probably not juice. She pressed play and reached inside her coat for the book she’d stolen last time she went home, A Travel Guide for Foundlings with Nowhere To Go. On the title page, in red pencil, someone had scrawled ‘2009 ARIA Breakthrough Independent Artist of the Year’ and ‘2009 ARIA Best Independent Release.’ Bertie laughed as she tore out the page, flicked her lighter open and set the paper alight. She pulled out her bookmark - a dog-eared card embossed with ‘Francois Tetaz – Producer at Large’ – and started drawing the mourning light of the looming stars onto the pages. 

It was dark when she’d finished. And cold. And she was thirsty. Out of the corner of her eye, she could feel the world come alive with the fiends of the night. She fixed them with her unblinking eye and whispered I know where you’re hiding and I’m coming to get you.

New single Everything's Beautiful out now!

Hi ladies and gents, here you will find the demos of my own original songs. I’m a singer/songwriter from the United Kingdom.
- Frisson - - Celestial - - Echoes of the past - & - Standard Serenity -
Love to do Covers here and there also.
My biggest influencers are -
- The Verve 
- Coldplay
Nice one, and I hope you enjoy the tracks.

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Aussie soul singer Kuseah is a name to watch. Born and raised in Sydney to a Filipino mother and an English father, Kuseah’s strong influences of soul, reggae, hip hop, roots and 90s boy bands are threaded through her music. 

Her live shows are energetic, charismatic and honest, with a unique urban sound that leans on the retro-soul bandwagon of artists like Janelle Monae, Paloma Faith and Amy Winehouse.

In 2013, Kuseah teamed up with songwriter/producer brothers John and Paul Bartlett from Lowrider to record her debut EP “A Winner’s Guide to the Walk of Shame”. Recorded at Chapel Lane Studios and mastered by Neville Clarke (Hilltop Hoods, Funkoars), this five-track record serves as a delicious sampler and is now available on iTunes, Spotify and Amazon. 

With songs written from the foetal position of lost loves and failed romances, Kuseah delivers a refreshing, light-hearted take on the broken-hearted songstress, with can’t-help-but-dance tracks dripping with funky riffs and stompy beats. She is a must-see scratch in the bedpost of new Sydney music.


Debut EP "A Winner's Guide to the Walk of Shame" 
Now available on iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud, Rdio and Amazon.

All Lyrics written by Kuseah Lawton
All Songs co-written by Paul Bartlett and John Bartlett for SIXFOUR Music.
All instruments by Paul Bartlett and John Bartlett
All strings and horns written and arranged by John Bartlett.

Horns on "All The Boys" played by Scott Illingworth

Recorded by Gabriel Agostino
at Chapel Lane Studios, Adelaide
Mastered by Neville Clarke, Disk Edits, South Australia

Madeline Leman is an alt-country, indie-folk musician from Melbourne, Australia.

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