Our new single Coolatai Waltz heads out to radio and digital through Checked Label Services on 9th May. The song was written for a wedding in Coolatai NSW in 2019, weaving a ‘tale tales and true' story of the couple’s…
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May 7 2023
May 7 2023
Our new single Coolatai Waltz heads out to radio and digital through Checked Label Services on 9th May. The song was written for a wedding in Coolatai NSW in 2019, weaving a ‘tale tales and true' story of the couple’s…
Read moreAug 28 2022
Sat In the Car And Remembered is heading out to radio on 20 September, as the final single from the Small Town Tales album. The song tells of an impetuous trip across the Nullarbor Plain fuelled by the optimism of…
Read moreJul 23 2022
Aug 14 2021
Our Soundtrack Our Stories is an initiative by ARIA to get local artists streaming in homes and businesses while the live performance sector is down. We've put together a playlist of music of artists and colleagues linked to Kyogle and…
Read moreJul 1 2021
The Shelly Jones Band’s upbeat traditional country sound merges with Watling & Bates’ old time Gothic hillbilly and honkytonk style on this latest single from these two accomplished country duos.
Written by Shelly Jones, IF YOU KNEW WHAT YOU KNOW…
Read moreFeb 14 2021
Candy Moon, released on Valentine's Day 2021, is available for streaming, download, and home delivery as a CD single! Producer and guitarist Thor Phillips and drummer Marcus Schintler have bought some hillbilly swing and rockabilly jazz to this old…
Read moreFeb 12 2021
Wonderful to see the long-awaited Kyogle Backroads episode, in which we performed for the launch of the Richmond River Independent community newspaper at the Kyogle Bowling Club!
Jan 4 2021
So grateful to receive our finalist nomination certificates for the Tamworth Songwriters Association (TSA) Salute Awards. This year we were honoured with five semi-final nominations, with one of them, Wondering About My Time, reaching the finals in the Gospel category…
Read moreOct 29 2020
2020 marks 140 years since Ned Kelly’s last stand and subsequent execution on the 11th of November 1880. Producer and guitarist Thor Phillips and drummer Marcus Schintler deliver a sharp edge of Australian rock to this colonial tale, with…
Read moreSep 30 2020
Aug 8 2020
Thor Phillips pits a full-house of Dobro against Christopher Ridgway‘s hand of chicken-pickin’ guitar. Watling crashes the saloon with a harmonica while Bates keeps a safe distance and thoughtfully nurses his beer. Wondering About My Time is from the Small…
Read moreAug 5 2020
Celebrating the launch of our new independent local newspaper, the Richmond River Independent, filmed by ABC Back Roads for their Kyogle episode. Photo by our local MP Janelle Saffin.