Á Tea for Two with Emily Lubitz

What can I say about Emily Lubitz? I first heard Emily's voice at Queenscliff Music Festival years ago when she played a set before mine and I was just mesmerised by her and TinPan Orange and been her and the band's biggest fans ever since. When I first moved to the Northern Rivers, Bundjalung Country a friend put me in touch with another musician who had just recently moved here with kids as well. That was Harry James Angus. We hung out at the park with our two boys running amuck before going back to meet his wife. I nearly DIED when his wife was my biggest fan girl moment Emily Lubitz. I played it cool. real cool, but I was NOT COOL fumbling over words! 

Emily and I became quick cuppa tea pals, and would you believe they offered me BARRY'S TEA on arrival? I mean was that not just the sign of the best friendship to come. It has been amazing to have Emily living nearby, with both of us being in the music community and being mothers and navigating this crazy thing called full time music and I just love where our chats always go and so we sat down in the bus with a Cuppa and some Northern Rivers rain and recorded one of our cuppas for ye. Our chats went from touring, and Beyoncé through to our sneaking in creativity times in-between loads of laundries to our belief in the shifting plates in the music industry that we are witnessing and proud to be part of. 

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Very few artists can cradle your heart in their hands while they kick your ass, but after more than a decade touring with critically acclaimed indie-folk darlings Tinpan Orange, Emily Lubitz is striding out on her own. The six-foot tall frontwoman with the gossamer voice has combined forces with Freyja Hooper on drums and Winona Miller on bass to create a new, darkly romantic vision.

With that timeless, aching quality that only the great voices have, Lubitz is every singer’s favourite singer, a captivating live performer who has won the hearts of audiences around the world, and yet she is more priestess than popstar, creating her own iconography that sears itself into the listener’s imagination.

Lubitz tells us stories about everyday things, but her voice transfigures them into works of beauty, like a messy bedroom suffused with golden morning light.  Lubitz is a veteran of the scene, having performed on some of the world’s biggest stages and collaborated with the likes of Paul Kelly, Martha Wainwright, Clare Bowditch and the album she recorded with old friend Mama Kin, and yet her solo work is imbued with the raw energy of a breakthrough artist.