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| When Clare Bowditch and the Feeding Set released their debut album Autumn Bone in March 2004, critics found it “mesmerising” (Rolling Stone), “magical” (The Australian), “earthy and intricate” (SMH). Fortunately, Bowditch’s visual storytelling and compelling vocal-style also captured the good favour of audiences nationally, propelling the young group into the spotlight as one of the most exciting sounds to emerge from Australia that year. As most bands must, The Feeding Set spent 2004 touring relentlessly, three tours of their own and innumerable others supporting the likes of Paul Kelly, Pete Murray, Missy Higgins, The Waifs, Xavier Rudd, Tim Rogers, Paul Dempsey, and Cat Power, as well as playing key spots on Falls, Meredith and St Kilda Festivals, amongst many others. By the beginning of 2005, Clare Bowditch and the Feeding Set had developed an incredibly strong live performance, with a following to match. But where did this unique voice come from we hear some of you ask? Bowditch’s first songs were nonsensical imitations of church hymns written when she was three (her mother has the tapes), but it wasn’t until her teens whilst bashing away on the Melbourne pub circuit that her unique visual imagery began taking shape. In the late 90’s, her folk-flavoured group Red Raku released two albums, Sweetly Sedated (1999) and Roda Leisis (2000), before she moved to Canada on an exchange scholarship to study Ethnomusicology/Creative Writing. Returning to Australia in 2001 with a head full of new songs and a new-found fondness for her trusty guitar, Clare began the writing process for what was to become Autumn Bone. Originally intended as a solo project that was to feature an array of guest musicians, the record soon took a different course. Of the dozen or so guests who contributed to the project, four remained – Marty Brown (Art of Fighting) on drums, J Walker (Machine Translations) on guitar, French horn player and vocalist Libby Chow, and bass player Warren Bloomer. After a month of sharing Wednesday night dinners and rehearsals together, the aptly named Feeding Set was born. Push forward to 2005 and in celebration of the bands new home at EMI, the band are now thrilled to present you with their new single, ‘On This Side’, taken from the forthcoming album, ‘What Was Left’. ‘On This Side’ is a welcome follow up to the popular first single ‘Divorcee by 23’, another example of Bowditch’s fecund imagination. These songs are a continuation of Bowditch’s fascination with bent folk pop, and a further demonstration of the rare production talent of Martin W Brown, who uses the art of detail to transform this song into an immediately accessible yet timeless offering. ‘On This Side’ is a colourful slice of what is to come from the October scheduled release, which was recorded on tape from a desk at Brown and Bowditch’s very own Standalone Studios, based conveniently beside a fig tree in their back garden in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.  | |
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