about
Courtney Barnett.
Courtney lives in Melbourne, plays guitar and writes songs. She likes to think her music defies genre but it’s really just an amalgamation of all the music she digs mashed into one. She has recently recorded an EP due out 2012. It sounds pretty different to what you might have heard already. Sign up to the mailing list so we can tell you where/when/how/why to buy it. She has shared stages with The Dandy Warhols, Adalita, The Little Stevies, Davey Lane and at least one million other great musicians.
2012 is exciting for three reasons:
i) Courtney Barnett grows real band: Oliver Mestitz joins camp again on drums and boy-vocals.
ii) EP launch.
iii) Apocalypse.
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“Cute little pop gem in the Darren Hanlon vein. The lyrics are fantastic. It feels like a little window into your life.” – Dom Alessio, Triple J.
“Courtney is a wonderful emerging artist who I’ve learnt a lot from.” – Sibylla Stephen, The Little Stevies.
“Courtney Barnett is something else.” – Kate Kingsmill, Inpress.
“There’s a sparkly feel that Courtney shines through these sparsely sounding tracks that’s just simply charming really.” – The Band Next Door.
Courtney is and has been involved in a bunch of other bands as well. She currently plays slide guitar in psychedelic country band Immigrant Union. In 2010 they released The Winter EP and then they went to Portland, Oregon and recorded a full-length album which is due out March 2012. Courtney joined the band halfway through 2011 and learnt how to play slide plus the entire Immigrant Union repertoire one day on a porch in Benalla. Sometimes Courtney performs with one of the Immigrant Union frontmen Bob as duo Cottonbud. They opened for a small run of Dandy Warhol shows to nice acclaim “Thanks to Bob and Court for opening, they’re like Dylan and Baez or something” (Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Dandy Warhols). “It wasn’t hard to draw comparisons to Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood” (Faster Louder). Courtney also sings/plays tambourine any chance she can grab with bluegrass country band The Merri Creek Pickers. Before all this, Courtney was mucking around with some friends as The Olivettes playing some sort of surf grunge pop. They blew minds and hearts at the 2010 Queenscliff Music Festival, Numurkah Foodbowl Festival and Applecore Backyard Festival. The Olivettes released a limited edition 100 copies of a live EP in April 2011. Some people liked them: “It feels like the whole world is waiting for recorded material from The Olivettes…The music is a similarly rangy mutt, with pop, surf, country and folk rock sensibilties all getting a guernsey.“ (Kill Phollins, ThreeThousand) and some people didn’t understand them: “More posing than talent” (Blogger). Before that, Courtney was playing second guitar in Rapid Transit. They recorded and released a 9 track cassette in January 2011. Throughout all this, Courtney has been playing solo material for about five years and often teams up with Oliver Mestitz on drums/vocals. Click on the photos below for links to these bands.
contact courtney at
info@courtneybarnett.com.au
management
nick@lookoutkid.com
photography
Douglas E Pope
Steve Martin
