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WHO: Courtney Barnett.
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WHERE: The Brisbane Hotel, Hobart.
WHEN: Thursday, September 25.
SHE sleeps in late, she likes pickles from the jar, she’s from Hobart, she’s anaphylactic and a super-hypochondriac, and she much prefers the mundane.
Australian indie rocker Courtney Barnett has spent the past two years on the road, playing small pubs, clubs, legendary festivals such as Glastonbury and performing to a huge US TV audience on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
Growing in Sydney, and now based in Melbourne, Barnett moved to Hobart with her parents in her mid-teens, and the time spent in the Apple Isle certainly helped shape her as a musician.
‘‘When I lived in Hobart–I moved there when I was 16 - that’s when I started going to shows, and I turned 18 there so I saw my first legal shows there,’’ she said.
‘‘I saw like Magic Dirt, Augie March and Darren Hanlon, heaps of cool stuff at the Republic Bar and around town. So that was really a monumental time to see my first live shows, it was cool.’’
Barnett is performing at The Brisbane Hotel this month, her first homecoming shows since the witty lyrics and sharp hooks of tracks like Avant Gardener and History Eraser started gaining the attention of fans and radio stations.
Despite her globetrotting adventures and the critical acclaim that her music has attracted, her songs continue to shine with stories of everyday events and the places and things that relate to Australians living in the 21st century.
The lead-up to her Tasmanian show will be in keeping with that down-to-earth goodness that comes through in her songs.
‘‘I’ll probably have dinner with my folks, and just see friends and probably have a wander around and get nostalgic and then play the show,’’ she said.