Alt-Rock

Joyce Prescher is a Melbourne based singer-songwriter originally from the Netherlands. Slowly but steadily, Joyce has been making a name for herself in the Americana and folk scene.

With her carefully crafted lyrics, haunting melodies and rich velvety vocals she takes you back to days long gone. Her words are delivered with such honesty and melancholy, you cannot help but be roped in and left mesmerised.

In 2020 Joyce joined the line up of a show called Keep the Circle Unbroken, curated by Delsinki. With the show she has performed at the Memo Music Hall, the 2022 Port Fairy Folk Festival and as part of their regional Victoria tour in 2021. She shared the stage with many Australian favourites, including Tim Rogers, Kylie Auldist, Mick Thomas, Debra Byrne, Sarah Carroll, Kerryn Fields and XANI. Joyce Prescher also features on the Keep the Circle Unbroken album, which was recorded live in July 2020 at the Memo Music Hall in St Kilda, between the two Melbourne lockdowns.

In November 2021 she performed as part of three sold out shows paying tribute to the late Justin Townes Earle at the Brunswick Ballroom.

More recently, Joyce completed a tour as part of the Sing a Song of Sixpence line up, with artists including Abby Dobson, Freya Josephine Hollick, Charm of Finches, Van Walker, Grim Fawkner and more.

Joyce Prescher released her debut album Home in 2017, which was praised by PBS and listed in their top 10 albums upon release. She has finished recording her sophomore album, which is to be released in the second half of 2022.

Gurr are a German garage rock duo, consisting of Andreya Casablanca and Laura Lee (both on vocals and guitar). Their debut album, In My Head, was released in 2016, and was the Independent Music Companies Association album of the year.

Casablanca, who is from Nuremberg, and Lee, from Oldenburg, met in Berlin while doing North American studies, and formed a band together soon after. They self-released the Furry Dream EP in April 2015.

They recorded their debut album, In My Head in a studio at Berlin's Funkhaus. Its release was preceded by the singles Moby Dick and Walnuts (present on the album in a German language version, "Walnuss" - their only German language song). The album was released in October 2016, to positive reviews.

In 2017 the band toured Europe extensively and also played SXSW in Austin, Texas, and did a session at Maida Vale Studios for Huw Stephens on BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom. They supported The Go! Team and Shame on UK tours in the spring of 2018. In May 2018 the band released a new single, "Hot Summer", which was followed by various festival dates including Immergut, and the Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals. The band ended 2018 by collaborating with Eddie Argos of Art Brut on Christmas songs for a new "Christmas Business" EP.

Dark, visceral and drenched in an otherworldly psychedelia only the most affecting art could muster, this is the handwerk of Brett Poliness and Katie Scott.
Growing up on a balanced diet of early Genesis, Neil Young & Crazy Horse and his parents’ towering collection of over 250 seminal LPs, a young Brett Poliness found his creative catalyst resting on the hammers of the family upright piano. His love of art-rock, meditative repetition, and the sombre earthiness instilled in his writing by the old instrument developed into his 20s and beyond.
Known to Australian grunge audiences of the noughties as the drummer for prolific Melbourne-based instrumental outfit, Silver Ray (Cam Butler, Julitha Ryan), Poliness and his associates released a searing four studio albums, joining Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds on the Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus tour of 2004.
As the drummer for ex-Bad Seeds and The Wreckery member, Hugo Race & The True Spirit, Poliness entered a further five releases into his catalogue, joining the band’s European tour throughout 2016 and ‘17. Poliness has appeared with Mick Harvey, featured on the debut solo release of Brian Henry Hooper (Beasts of Bourbon, Kim Salmon and the Surrealists, Rowland S. Howard), and is a current member of Charlie Marshall and The Body Electric.
Now, Brett Poliness is reborn - this time, alongside chief collaborator and artistic ally, Katie Scott (Howl at the Moon, Pony Face, Ladie Dee, Plague Doctor).
The duo’s debut album, A Chance to Fail, rallies an aesthetic that is equal parts cinematic, spellbinding and nightmarish, inspired by Polish jazz legend and film composer, Krystof Komeda. Scott’s searing vocals pierce a cooly orchestrated sound palette and whip through the heart of the album’s lyricism, as do her many, varied influences - from Portishead (Beth Gibbons), Tom Waits and Mark Lanegan through to Billie Holiday and the crucial legacy of Jeff Buckley’s songwriting. All the while, Poliness’ generative work as a drummer/composer rushes to the fore. Painted by shocks of Cave’s The Skeleton Tree with the dauntless tenacity of early PJ Harvey records also showcased in Poliness’ debut solo record, The Is The Colour Of Black When It Gets Burned (2003), A Chance to Fail embraces what is undoubtedly Poliness and Scott’s drug of choice: their very own brand of rhythmic repetition and musing syncopation.
The result? Nothing short of sublime hallucinations from a whole other plane.

is a Melbourne based cellist & sound track composer. He has recorded & toured with the Ergot Derivative, bzark, Disaster Plan, The Holy Sea & Sand Pebbles. He has scored several Australian TV & film productions including Crackerjack and Boytown. IN TURMOIL will be the new album, due July 2021.