The Pleasures (Aus)

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Australian Country and Americana stars THE PLEASURES are bringing their brand new album and explosive live show to London this November!

Fronted by Catherine Britt and Lachlan Bryan, The Pleasures have quickly become one of the most talked-about new acts in the country. The sound is gritty and blues-inspired, and the subject matter ranges from bold and bawdy to heartfelt and insightful. Debut record THE BEGINNING OF THE END set the scene, but their much anticipated follow-up ENEMY OF MY ENEMY delivers even more hook-laden, guitar-driven, emotionally charged goodness!

In three short years, The Pleasures have scored repeated High Rotation across ABC Country, CMT, Double J and ABC local. They've been Feature Album on ABC Country and Community Stations, entered the ARIA Album Charts at #2, spent over three months in the Top 40 on the USA's Americana Album Charts and been nominated for 3 Golden Guitar Awards. They've toured heavily at home, in the USA and in Europe - playing festival mainstages and packed bandrooms.

“The Pleasures burned the stage down with country rock that sounds like they should own Nashville, Austin and Memphis. Easily a personal choice for best of 2024 Folk Alliance International.” - Doug Hill - Oklahoma Transcript

With Special Guest Andrew Leahey

Hailed by Rolling Stone for his "sharp storytelling and fist-pumping rock & roll swagger," Andrew Leahey widens his reach considerably with his upcoming fifth album, Kick / Move / Shake. It's the most eclectic and pop-friendly record of his career, heavily informed by the 1980s soundtrack of his youth. Synthesizers, glittering guitars, stacked vocal harmonies, and larger-than-life pop melodies are the album's building blocks, stacked into sparkling shape by Leahey (a three-time semi-finalist at the International Songwriting Competition) and producer Gregory Lattimer (Albert Hammond Jr., Aaron Lee Tasjan). A stylistic leap beyond the acclaimed Americana music of his previous albums, Kick / Move / Shake was written and recorded during a roller-coaster year that found Leahey losing his mother to Alzheimer's, playing to sold-out crowds on Willie Nelson's Outlaw Music Festival Tour, and crisscrossing the country (and beyond) as frontman of Andrew Leahey & The Homestead, as well as bandleader for Elizabeth Cook.