L Magazine Northside Fest...
Holly Throsby + Mattison

Friday, June 12
Admission: $5, $10 minimum
Showtime: 8pm
reservations are recommended

Holly Throsby is from Sydney, Australia. She recorded her third album A Loud Call in Nashville with engineer and producer Mark Nevers (Lambchop, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Andrew Bird).

In the last few years Holly has toured Australia many times and has played on various tours in the UK, Europe, America and Canada. She has toured on her own, with her band, and in support of artists such as Joanna Newsom, Smog, Mark Kozelek, M. Ward, Devendra Banhart, Paul Kelly, The Eels and Low. She also likes to sing duets and she has done so with, among others, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Sarah Blasko, Glen Hansard (The Swell Season), Jack Ladder, New Buffalo, Hayden and Andrew Bird.

Holly has been nominated for two Australian Recording Industry Awards for Best Female Artist (in 2006 for her second album Under the Town and in 2008 for A Loud Call).
Apart from music she is interested in 20th century literature, political intrigue, humour, small towns, and dogs.

“Throsby's carefully observed ideas and startling voice make the old feel new enough to make neck hairs stand on end, rapt.” -The New York Sun

"Throsby’s yielding, half-spoken vocals invest poetic distillations with an elusive profundity.” -Mojo

"Songs which feel like they have been constructed in the smallest and most solitary space. This is a sound of its own.” -Rolling Stone

"Throsby sings with a knowing intimacy, like all her songs are enclosed in a secret, special place. She sings and songs shimmer gently in the morning half-light. This is something quite special.” -Everett True in Plan B

"Like I-Spy-With-My-Little-Eye set to music, or painting pictures with notes and quavers, Under The Town is a breath of fresh air. I guarantee – whatever your mood – that for half an hour at least you'll go to places you only dreamt of and wish you could stay there forever and a day.” -8/10, Drowned in Sound

www.myspace.com/hollythrosby

Mattison returns to Monkeytown with songs from their about-to-be-unveiled vinyl, their second release of 2009. The trio, consisting of Rhodes, Bass and Drums, sounds like 1970's AM Gold mixed with heavy bass, acid jazz, and hints of soft porn and car chase themes. This is all accomplished with a Minnie Riperton-esque vocalist and lots of hesh-seshing in basements with seedy, yet artistically intriguing individuals.

http://myspace.com/mattison