Mardi Lumsden: vocals / guitar.
Pennay: banjo / mandolin-banjo / melodica / vocals.
Jane McEniery: double bass.
Anthony Lawrence: drums.
Dave Callanan: assorted little (and big) instruments.
Nigel Kee: double bass (mia).
Kenji Uranishi: drums (mia).
Influences
Candle Records, Iron and Wine, Sufjan Stevens, Darren Hanlon, Anthony Atkinson, Clare Bowditch, The Frames, Damien Rice, friends, family, travel, and so much more.
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Going is Finding is available from Rocking Horse Records in Brisbane and Polyester Records in Melbourne!
Mardi's Songs of Applewood collaboration with Cameron McKenzie (called Let it Go) is now available from . It is only available online.
You can also buy our EP Going is Finding online at the Wallflower Records Etsy.com store. This is not a digital thing though... you buy it and we post it to you.
Here is the link: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6377260
Brisbane-based singer-songwriter Mardi Lumsden has been playing in her home town since 2002.
Her simple, truthful alt-folk tells stories using instruments such as the melodica and the banjo-mandolin, picked up on her various travels.
Lumsden released her long awaited debut EP Going is Finding in June 2007.
Going is Finding received rave reviews in local press with one critic describing it as ‘a cute little package of folk, acoustic and pop telling life stories through the eyes of a child... but with the mature, sorrowful voice of Mardi Lumsden’. (Rave Magazine).
In 2008 she performed in London and Dublin and did an Australian East Coast tour with friends The Morning Papers and Chris Pickering.
Mardi Lumsden and the Rising Seas have also performed as part of the illustrious Picasso Up Late series at the Gallery of Modern Art, the LiveSpark series at the Brisbane Powerhouse and the 2008 Fete de la Musique festival in Brisbane.
Lumsden was one of twenty songwriters chosen to participate in the 2008 Songs of Applewood retreat and recording which was launched during Bigsound 2008.
The Rising Seas comprises Andrew Pennay (The Australian Voices) on banjo, melodica and other small instruments, David Callanan (Cloud Run, The Hopesmiths Project) on guitar, mandolin and glockenspeil, Jane McEniery on double bass, and Anthony Lawrence (The Villains Of Wilhelm) on drums.
A lover of live music, Lumsden is also a journalist, has written a university thesis on the workings of the music street press, and currently presents a segment on Brisbane music on ABC local radio.
She co-owns indie record label Wallflower Records with Catriona MacIvor.
If you like what you hear, grab a copy of Mardi's EP Going is Finding at the Wallflower Records Etsy Store! You can also drop in to Rocking Horse Records in Brisbane City or Polyester Records in Fitzroy, Melbourne.
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Hi there! We're going to be up in Brisbane this Saturday 10th to launch our new album at the X & Y Bar in the Valley. We're onstage at 8:30pm and it's free entry! See you there!
I feel like I have grown closer to you by the deeply symbolic act of publicly confirming our relationship as "friends" on myspace. Thank GOD for modern technology. Human relationships just wouldn't be as deep without it.
hia mardi =) how's everything going?
when you get a moment please check out our new demo up now and pass the blackbirds myspace around!
we'd really appreciate it!
xx emma.
Come out THURSDAY 28th MAY to 'UNPLUGGED @ THE BASEMENT' for Ryan Murphy & Band's LAST GC SHOW FOR 09...
Ryan is off to Melbourne for the rest of 09 on an amazing writing & gigging venture..WHO AGENCIES wishes Ryan all the very best and will continue to support Ryan with all the amazing ventures that are to come.
In saying this WHO AGENCIES would love to personally invite you to have the chance to come and support an amazing local musician and show him how well the GC appreciates his music.. so come to the FInal Kiss Good Bye Show @ Unplugged @ The Basement ( we will have a treat at the front door for you upon entry...)
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