Lachlan Bryan & The Wildes
Presented by: Filey Americana| 0 | FILEY: Evron Centre (info) |
|---|---|
| P | Friday 5th September, 2025 |
| N | Door time: 7:00pm Start time: 7:30pm |
| . | 14 and over |
| C | Music - Folk/blues/world |
Event information
Aussie alt-country favourites return to Filey to kick off Filey Americana Festival
Lachlan Bryan is a genre-bending, critically acclaimed singer-songwriter from Melbourne. His eclectic, literate records and live shows, often recorded and performed with his loyal band of band of brothers The Wildes, have gained LB a loyal fanbase in Australia and The UK over the past decade. He’s flown the flag of the Americana genre in Australia since The Wildes’ debut record in 2010, and he has toured with the likes of Steve and Justin Townes Earle, Joe Pug, John Hiatt, Shawn Colvin and Joan Armatrading - as well as more contemporary acts like The North Mississippi Allstars and Lord Huron. Breakthrough album Black Coffee won a Golden Guitar and a Music Victoria Award in 2014, and all of LB’s subsequent albums have been short-llisted for the Australian Music Prize.
2021 was Lachlan Bryan’s most commercially successful year to date – with two ARIA Official #1 Australian Country albums. Nearest Misses, a live record recorded on the road in 2019 was released in March, whilst As Long as it’s Not Us, he and The Wildes’ first studio album since 2018, was released to much acclaim in September. The unique sonic and lyrical content of the latter album was perhaps best summed up by respected music journalist Bernard Zuel, who wrote:
"How many Americana artists can offer up a song that channels mid 80s Leonard Cohen - with a bit of sleaze, a patina of urban darkness, and an ear for the line between cynicism and realism - alongside urban bluegrass murder ballads and a dash of God versus Ego? Lachlan Bryan, like Jason Isbell and Shane Nicholson, is country only by old association, and Americana by limitation (ours, not his)".
In 2022, LB and The Wildes appeared at many Australian festivals including Out on the Weekend, Dashville Skyline, Groundwater Country Music Festival and The Gympie Muster. They also toured the UK (twice) and Scandinavia, and appeared at Maverick (the UK's original Americana Festival) for a record fourth time. In October this year, the band was nominated for a Music Victoria Award for Best Country Act - for the second consecutive year, then a Golden Guitar Award (for best Group or Duo) a month or two later.
