Rachael Brady

“...a lovely, soulful sound...a distinctive & very warm voice”
- Caroline Tran, Triple J
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“captivating”
- Triple J Unearthed
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"Rachael Brady is one of Brisbane's best kept secrets.... Inspired, inspiring, raw, unapologetic and impassioned."
Ben Preece: Time Off Street Press

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....drawing on the best of folk, roots, blues & jazz influences: billie holiday meets jack johnson meets joni mitchell meets rickie lee jones - soul buoying, intelligent, acoustic quasi pop with equal parts grunt and delicacy.....
As far as musical pedigrees go, I guess you could say I'm more like a mongrel half-breed you’d adopt from the RSPCA than a shitzu with papers you’d pay a thousand bucks for. I didn’t learn 5 instruments from the age of 3 and I’ve never ventured within so much as a hundred yards of a singing teacher. Both my parents play piano but my father is tone deaf and my mother can hold a tune but is, shall we say, rhythmically challenged although not completely bereft. No impressive musical lineage there. The sum total of my classical training amounts to a few epic screaming matches with my mother at 10 because I flatly refused to go to piano lessons. I won and the lessons stopped.

Still, music lives and breathes in most of us and so I never wandered too far from its loving embrace. My mother says that when I was a toddler, she found me curled up asleep at a gathering on the lounge room floor by the speakers with the music blaring. Another time, when I was around 2, she got halfway down the road with me after leaving a music store before she realized I had a record under my arm for which she hadn't paid. She was too embarrassed to take it back and she doesn't recall what album it was. I figure these moments must speak for something.
Fast forward to what I can only assume was a pivotal moment although none too glamorous….Pulling beers after having dropped out of University (journalism curriculum/academia induced disillusionment), I was invited mid barshift to sing some acoustic covers – well it kept happening and before you know it 8 years had passed and I’d been fronting a 5 piece party band, pumping out ABBA and Black Sabbath, side by side, 4 nights a week, such is the nature of that line of employment.
Anyway – between there and here are some gaps I just can’t be bothered filling in for you right now but they’re worth a listen so maybe over a beer or something….. All you need to know is that I write folky, rootsy, bluesy-ish songs with my faithful cohort Nigel Kerr (acoustic guitar) and we went and made an album and toured the states and that’s what we continue to do - write, record, tour. We work with soul-strong people who know what they’re doing and we’ve just released our second album which I’m pretty sure I like more than the first one. We much prefer live gigging to recording and you should bloody well turn off the TV or whatever else you’re doing and come out and see us. And yes - I'm originally from Brisbane but have recently relocated south to the Blue Mountains tp get away from the city - think Sydney for those of you not familiar with Australian geography and then think two and a half hours west from there and into the hills. For the more grown up version of this bio go to MY SONICBIDS PRESS KIT . Otherwise – enjoy the tunes. We are record label-less BY CHOICE so please buy a cd or download some songs and support truly INDEPENDENT music. :)
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mother. wife. musician. vegan. humanist. spiritualist. aquarian. vintage shopper. nature lover. recycler. hybrid driver. peacemaker. visionary. creator. free thinker. believer. infinite. just. like. you.
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LINKS to the HEART
VEGAN OUTREACH
AMNESTY
THE HOPESMITHS PROJECT
THE REALITY OF FOOD PRODUCTION
TRIBE OF HEART
Make Trade Fair
In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness....I see what people call God in all these things
-- Pablo Casals
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If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
--the buddha

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