Kasey announces US Support

October 12, 2004

We are thrilled to announce that Holly Williams (grand daughter of the great Hank) joins Kasey and her band for the forthcoming U.S tour. So the gig lineup will be Australian singer songwriter Shane Nicholson, Holly Williams and Kasey Chambers. How's that for an awesome lineup!!!! The US tour kicks off at the Fillmore, San Francisco on November 3.

PONY NEXT AUSTRALIAN SINGLE

October 8, 2004

Pony will be the next commercial single released in Australia. The B-sides and exact release date are yet to be confirmed, but it will be sometime in November. Date will be advised as soon as confirmed.

US Album Reviews Start To Roll In...

Check out this excellent Review from Associated Press which ran in over over 1,700 newspapers nationally!!

And stay tuned for more reviews as they come to hand.

Down-under country from Kasey Chambers

Loving and losing, lashing out and lamenting, Kasey Chambers is in fine form on her latest album, "Wayward Angel," which - if it hasn't already happened - has ensured her a seat at the table of country-music innovation.
Chambers, an Australian whose 2002 breakthrough CD "Barricades & Brickwalls" rang clear as a true original, continues to carve out her personal alt-country niche with "Wayward Angel." Her distinctive voice, which has an amazing way of making squeaky sound sexy and multidimensional, is higher than ever and her delivery even more delightful.
She says the songs on it drew "directly from my own life as well as the people around me," and evidently there's discontent there. Pulling country's traditional heartstrings with clever new turns of phrase, she seems to be issuing a call for intimacy, for permanence where there is none. "I shoulda known better; there ain't no guarantees," she sings in "Saturated."
The title track is haunting and laced with lament, and "Guilty As Sin" is a particular joy, with echoes of gospel and '70s rock, illustrating again that Chambers is at her sexiest when she's sneering and insolent. "Hollywood," too, is outstanding, a meditation on trying to claim reality in a world of manufactured emotions and life scenarios.
Chambers shows no signs of slowing down. If "Wayward Angel" is any indication, she's harnessed her talents in a highly listenable way that distinguishes her from many of her contemporaries.

Ted Anthony
The Associated Press

AND THE NOMINATIONS ARE

US Album Release

MELBOURNE SHOWS CANCELLED - NEW DATES ANNOUNCED

It is with sincere regret that Kasey Melbourne shows at the Palais 27th and 28th August were cancelled due to ill health. Kasey has a severe sinus infection, and is therefore unable to perform in any capacity. This, as you know, is a very tough decision to have to make and one that Kasey does not take lightly as performing live for her fans is the most important aspect of her musical career.

The shows have been rescheduled for 17th and 18th of September at The Palais.

For those holding tickets to the postponed Friday August 27th concert your tickets can now be used on Friday September 17th.

For those holding tickets to the postponed Saturday August 28th concert your tickets can now be used on Saturday September 18th.

For those that find these re-scheduled dates un-suitable please contact the Palais to get your ticket refunded.

Kasey and her management apologise for the inconvenience caused by the late cancellation of these shows and sincerely hope that her fans will be able to attend the rescheduled shows. Please know that if there was any way possible for these shows to have gone ahead - they would have.

Sweetheart Of The Radio

21-08-04 The Age

Kasey Chambers, says her early success was due to the loyalty of Australia's country music fans

After her runaway successes, Kasey Chambers is slowing down and reclaiming something for herself, writes Simon Wooldridge.
The most pressing question for Kasey Chambers must be approached with some tact. It's to do with her first-born. What was she thinking when she named her son Talon?
Chambers crinkles up her face and spits out a laugh. She recalls going to a restaurant in her new home town, Avoca, on the NSW central coast. "There was this old couple in there, " she says, "and they were goo-ing and gaa-ing over Talon. And then the lady said, 'Oh, what's his name?' I said, 'Talon'. She said, 'What? That is horrible. Who names their child Talon? I can't believe it!' Meanwhile, says Chambers, "me and (partner) Cori are laughing our heads off."
Up against top competition - Erykah Badu's Puma and Seven, and Gwyneth Paltrow's Apple - Chambers notes that Talon has already been listed in a Brisbane newspaper's list of worst celebrity names.

"It wasn't until after he was born that we told each other part of the reason that we liked Talon," she says. "An eagle's claw is a talon, and one of my favourite songwriters is Fred Eaglesmith. I wasn't going to call him Fred! And Cori, the football team he goes for is the West Coast Eagles. But we didn't say anything until afterwards because we thought it might put the other one off the name."

Chambers laughs. She's all cackles, gales and giggles between side-mouth drags on her cigarettes. It feels as if I've slipped into an episode of Kath and Kim.
We're sitting downstairs at Nash Chambers' house, Kasey's older brother, manager and producer. Five minutes up the road is Kasey's and Cori's home, and not much further away again is father and guitarist Bill Chambers' place.
But while from the outside the scene is one of quarter-acre idyll - a bright winter's morning in a leafy cul de sac where a ute sits in every drive, a fishing boat in every garage - there's more than a hint of the Chambers family's other life here.
Kasey Chambers is a music phenomenon. She's a crossover country artist who bridges many gaps: between regional Australian audiences in the heartlands, and city-based commercial FM radio listeners. She appeals equally to RSL crowds and the kids at the Homebake Festival. Teens love her and so do their parents, and grandparents. She has fans in the mainstream, from rock critics and her international artistic peers. She swept the 2002 ARIA awards with three wins, and her 2001 album Barricades and Brickwalls has sold 500,000 copies.
Her latest album, Wayward Angel, has spent its first six chart weeks at No. 1, the longest top spot for any album this year. In its first 12 weeks it has sold double-platinum - 140,000 copies.

At Nash's house in Avoca there's a gold album hanging on the wall, next to shots of Nash's young son Eden. More important, just around the corner on the lower level there's the studio where Wayward Angel was made. From these ordinary surroundings, such big things have grown.
In part, it's a typical suburban bombsite. The vocal booth is piled high with unfolded laundry and bedding. The decorations include a mounted king crab from the Chambers' home-country on the South Australian coast, and a mask from Kasey's trip to Africa.
But as the expensive equipment in the studio proves, the suburban bombsite is also about serious business. This is not only the birthplace of a double-platinum album. It's also home base for a mini-empire for the Chambers' family. It all starts here, with Nash's own label, Essence, which he uses to release both Chambers' music (via EMI in Australia and Warner Brothers in the US) and his own signings. And if this is an empire, Kasey, 27, and Nash, 32, are its executives.
It's typical of the Chambers' clan to shun the mainstream option of moving to the music industry centre of Sydney, and instead choose this backwater. The family's history is well-known, having been told everywhere from 60 Minutes to Enough Rope: Chambers spent her first 10 years living out of a camper-van on the Nullarbor while her father worked as a fox hunter. They had no radio, no TV. The entertainment was the country music Bill Chambers played to his kids on acoustic guitar. Then they all formed a band, the Dead Ringer Band, and toured Australia. The next phase was Kasey Chambers as solo performer; she's toured the world and received countless, and priceless, accolades. No wonder there's a desire for ordinary surroundings, and an ordinary family of her own.
These phases, however, have formed a narrative through Chambers' albums. Now the stories of her upbringing and family have become her own stories about being a young mother. Wayward Angel's title track is a song written for Talon. Mother draws an arc between generations, from new mother to new grandmother. "My mum and I have always been close," says Chambers, "like best friends. But you do appreciate it so much more after you have your own."
While these strong connections are a central theme for the album, its flip-side is disconnection. The new single Hollywood describes the clash between Kasey's life as pop star and suburban mother. Fittingly, it was written while Talon was in the bath.
"I was sitting at the side with my guitar, because the song was just there and I couldn't stop it," she says. "He was just splashing around, and I just had it written by the time I got him out."
The song's chorus - "this is not Hollywood/there are no cameras in my room" - echoes the fears of other tunes. On For Sale, for example, she sings: "You can buy my life on radio/order me by mail/not everything about me is for sale."
It's a new sentiment for an artist who has made a career from accessibility through her personal lyricism and her natural engagement with an audience. What it comes down to is that after all the glory and awards and magazine covers, Chambers is reclaiming something for herself. I tried to interview her parents, Diane and Bill , but all requests were politely denied. She's hardly deep under cover. She's not hiding. But Kasey Chambers appears to be becoming very wary.
"I'm not like that, not very much," she says. "When I'm doing interviews, whatever people ask, I pretty much tell it exactly the way it is. It doesn't always come out making me sound good, but it's all true. And I'm like that with songwriting as well. I don't ever hold back as far as that goes.
"But there's certain things that I like just being about me and Cori and Talon. Time just spent with them, not having to have any distractions. But in saying that, it's not like I have paparazzi banging on my door or hiding out in my bushes."
She has managed to find a rare balance between normality and superstardom. Where Delta Goodrem is relentlessly pursued by the media, Kasey Chambers rides the local bus to the gym every day unnoticed and can enjoy a drink at her local with no hassles. She's not a paparazzi target for the same reason that she connects so well with her fans - she's one of them. Not intensely glamorous, and not beset by the vanities and foibles of Sydney's star system. She has turned the sentiment of her early hit Not Pretty Enough to her advantage. Somehow, she's come up with a formula the record industry can't fake - an honest connection to fans.
"She's naturally charming," says the managing director of EMI Australia, and former music journalist, John O'Donnell. "And that comes across in person and onstage." Radio has been kind to Kasey Chambers. Her mainstream crossover was built on Not Pretty Enough, a weepy ballad written as a kiss-off to radio programmers who didn't think she contained enough collagen to fill their required mould.
But when it comes to her own tastes, she says she's a "flicker".

"When a shit song comes on, I'll change it and find a good song somewhere else," she says.

And what does she call a good song?
"Oh, I'll always leave the Jet song on. I like their album." She also likes Spiderbait. And she likes John Butler. "I love that song Zebra," she says.

Chambers says that her early success was due to the loyalty of Australia's country music fans. She made a song called The Captain, which wasn't exactly country but was country enough. It wasn't granted what she calls "serious" radio airplay. Yet it still sold by the truckload.

Never a typical modern rhinestone country artist, Chambers has moved further from cliche with each release. Wayward Angel has country flourishes - the bluegrass stomp of Follow You Home, the drawled Lucinda Williams sass of Guilty As Sin, the sly shuffle of the next single Pony. But it's essentially a pop album. As '80s revivalism gathers at pop music's edges via rehashes by the likes of Franz Ferdinand, Chambers has steel guitars, close harmonies and clean, airy pop tunes with yearning vocals.

Her record company expect to milk no fewer than five radio singles from Wayward Angel. The first two have both skirted around the Top 10.The next single is a twanging country song called a "point of difference" by the music industry, as a reminder of her sound.

Kasey Chambers can do what she likes in Australian music. Her fans are used to a wide breadth of sound. Barricades and Brickwalls was the experimental album; she tested new ground, and the fans stayed true.
"It's not about being country any more," says Nash. "It's just about being an artist and making music."
"And we've discovered that our audience is like that too," says Chambers. "I mean, everybody knows that I'm a country singer, but it's not just country fans that buy my albums. It doesn't seem to bother them."

Kasey Chambers performs on August 27 and 28 at the Palais Theatre, St Kilda.
Simon Wooldridge is associate editor of Rolling Stone Australia.

Thank God I'm a country girl

August 21, 2004

The remaking of Kasey Chambers from alternative country artist to New York magazine starlet has borne its own soul searching, writes Bernard Zuel.

It's a wintry evening in Bathurst and there isn't a spare hotel or motel room in town. Sure, Kasey Chambers and her band are here for the first of two shows. That's why the section of William Street on either side of the venue, the Memorial Entertainment Centre, is lined with parked cars - but the surprise crowd puller tonight is a hockey tournament for over-35 female players.

According to one burly track-suited participant, who greeted me with a gruff "you're a brave man" when I checked into the hotel, there are "hundreds" of veteran shin bashers on the loose this weekend.

But tonight, the pub opposite the Entertainment Centre, the Eddy (the Edinboro Castle Hotel) is barely stirring. Three doors down, the Knickerbocker Hotel is not much better. It's so quiet that you can hear the water trickling in the grand late-Victorian fountain 100 metres away. Bathurst isn't exactly rocking.

Quiet, too, is the merchandise stand inside the venue, where there is a brief respite while the support act is on stage. Before the show, at interval and, especially, after the show, this stand is stocked by Chambers's mother, Diane. It does a massive trade in everything from:-
T-shirts and stubby holders to fluffy animals and photo albums and is staffed by Bern, girlfriend of long-time Chambers family friend and lights operator Worm.

On this tour there's also a sheaf of paper for fans to write questions for Chambers to answer during a break in the show. There are the usual "where do you get your inspiration" and "what is your favourite song" questions and tonight one from a Joanne Clarke cheekily asking, "How did you become famous and if I give you a tape after the show could you listen to it please?"

If Joanne Clarke were to pay close attention to Chambers's new album, Wayward Angel, she might not want either fame or her recordings heard. She might ask herself if it's all worthwhile. Wayward Angel is the follow-up to the half-million selling, award-winning No. 1 Barricades And Brickwalls and its successful single Not Pretty Enough.

No. 1 albums: Barricades and Brickwalls, Wayward Angel
No. 1 single: Not Pretty Enough
ARIA Awards: 5 - The Captain: best country album, best female artist; Barricades and Brickwalls: album of the year, best female artist and best country album
Sales: The Captain, more than 300,000; Barricades, more than half a million; Wayward, so far in excess of 150,000

It's the album that shows Kasey Chambers's falling in love, having a baby and becoming the only artist who could challenge the sales phenomenon that is Delta Goodrem.

It's also the album peppered with songs that suggest some serious rethinking or questioning of a seemingly charmed life that has as its touchstones the now very familiar tales of growing up on the Nullarbor, playing in the family band, being ignored by the country music establishment and breaking through the country/pop chart barrier with her 1999 debut album, The Captain.

Those songs include For Sale, which declares "well you can buy my life on radio and order me by mail/but not everything about me is for sale". Or Saturated, which, before it resolves in standard love-gone-wrong lines, has Chambers describing herself as "acting high and mighty/It's just the liar here inside me" and plaintively offering "never wanted anything but a record and a band/I never wanted anything I didn't understand".

There is also, most publicly, the song Hollywood, with its chorus of "this is not Hollywood, this is my life". In Bathurst, Chambers introduces the song by saying "this is about how my life has changed. I gotta sort of watch where I pick my nose now. Someone might be watching me" and receives some nervous titters from the audience.

She immediately undercuts the tone by telling us about a recent visit to a hairdresser in country WA. There, the woman cutting her hair asked if people ever told her she looked like Kasey Chambers, before quickly adding, "don't worry, you look heaps better than her".

Humour aside, there's enough here to wonder whether the publicly effervescent 28-year-old Chambers has been having any private regrets.

Both earlier Kasey Chambers albums had been released in America, selling in excess of 100,000 copies. That's more than respectable for her genre of roots/country and her status as a non-American new artist, and provided a solid base on which to build.

And to wonder whether Chambers's low public profile of the past 18 months and the more constrained publicity schedule surrounding the new album suggests a new way of living in the face of unprecedented (for an Australian country act) fame.

"It's not as cut and dried as that," says Chambers the morning after the Bathurst show. "You know what? My life is great right now. I don't have much to complain about. There are only moments when it's overwhelming ... and they're the moments I write these songs."

Appropriately, perhaps, for this hockey weekend, she's dressed in black track gear. And her hair - closer to brown than the near-goth black we had grown accustomed to - is hanging loose. Although still a little early morning glassy of eye and husky of voice (she had to postpone a show a week earlier due to throat problems), Chambers is relaxed and prone to laugh at the slightest provocation.

When pressed about the tone of this new album, which not surprisingly debuted at No. 1 last month, she laughs it off as the result of some "weak moments" that have no more sway than the invigorating influence of two-year-old son Talon, on whom she dotes and with whom she is spending hours each day on tour watching Shrek and Finding Nemo. (It's a family trait: Chambers rarely reads but is a voracious TV consumer who has replaced the VCR she took on the road so as not to miss her favourite programs with a portable DVD player.)

"For Sale in particular is a song I wrote in a very weak moment," Chambers says almost apologetically. "It's funny singing that song now because I don't feel like that all the time."

OK, she may have asked radio programmers and TV producers "am I not pretty enough?" to get their attention, but is she allowed to feel bad or uncomfortable about the after-affects without apologising for it?

"For sure, and I'm not [apologising]. But it's just that sometimes it's sending the wrong message because I honestly don't have a problem with it that often. And it's Australia: people don't mob you at airports."

Maybe not at airports but sometimes in hospitals. Last year Chambers had a medical emergency that required hospitalisation and a surgical procedure.

"I went in the hospital and I was laying on the bed there and they were about to put me under and a nurse came up and asked me for an autograph, for her children. I'm not kidding you," Chambers says, rolling her eyes at the memory.

"I'm bawling my eyes out, she knew what had happened, and she said 'Oh, my kids are big fans, I'll get an autograph later'. Honestly, I can say it was the only moment I've ever felt, oh my God I don't want to be Kasey Chambers, I hate being Kasey Chambers. That one moment.

"Three days after that I wrote For Sale, thinking about that moment. That moment I was not for sale, that moment I was not Kasey Chambers. I wrote Hollywood not so much about that specific thing but I was thinking about that. [Another song] Stronger is about that: 'I'm a little bit stronger, I'm a little bit wiser.' And I am a little bit of all those things but 'nothing makes sense to me this time'. You get carried away with things going so well and then something like that happens. I know that [procedure] happens to hundreds and hundreds of women but it happened to me."

Chambers fiddles with some cutlery on the table before her, looking off. In the background there's the faint sound of a busload of hockey players heading to games ("Caffeine, more caffeine," one wails, suggesting at least someone found a Bathurst pub last night). Then Chambers turns towards me again with a weak smile.

"I realise I've got this fantasy world where I get to be famous and all that cool stuff but that doesn't make a scrap of difference to how I feel at those weak moments; it doesn't make it any less hard."

And if people want to read more into these lyrics?

"There was a moment when [brother, producer, live sound engineer and manager] Nash came in and we had 14 songs and we were deciding which one to get rid of," Chambers says. "Nash said how do you feel about having For Sale on the album because people are going to [think] that this is you saying, 'I hate this lifestyle.'

"He knew it was just that one moment of weakness and I had Hollywood on here already which said some of that. But you know I've never thought about that when I've made albums before and I don't want to give people the wrong impression, but then I just thought, 'no it's not how I want to start thinking; should I reveal this, should I not reveal that'. That's how I felt at the time, so bugger it; I'll just have to learn what to say when people ask about it."

Even though the complications and intrusions are a small part of the big and much happier picture, as Chambers insists, it's noticeable that her management, headed by brother Nash, has been more demanding and more restrictive when it comes to the media this time around. Photo shoots have been few, on-the-road access near impossible, offers from Australian Idol (which Kasey watches avidly) politely declined.

It's not surprising, of course.

When you start you take any offer of publicity that makes sense, but eventually as popularity rises, the time demanded far exceeds the time available and you have the luxury of choosing.

Earlier this morning Nash had explained that as a manager there's a lot of saying no. While deflecting any suggestion that his sister's past year may have had sufficient stresses to demand a change in approach - "I don't really know how she feels deep down" - he did concede that things have not been exactly as they expected since they recorded The Captain.

"It's kind of fun for a while but it's pressure and it comes to the point where you can't buy f---ing groceries," Chambers says. "Again, not that we're going to complain about it, but there's a good and a bad side to it. So I guess we never want to say no to stuff because we're in the business of selling stuff, but a lot of it is now quality not quantity. I'd like to think that's one of our strengths. We try to think of a reason to say yes."

What becomes clear, too, is that one of the areas hearing "no" a little more is the United States. Signed to the giant Warner label there, Chambers has earned the attention of magazines such as Vanity Fair and TV shows such as David Letterman, but her last foray in support of Barricades and Brickwalls was cut short by her pregnancy. It's meant a stalled American career.

The obvious solution this time, at least, obvious to most managers, would be to relocate to America and play anywhere and everywhere for as long as possible. To make Kasey Chambers a fixture in the pop-culture environment.

But for the Chambers family, the business models most often cited are Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne, artists who have had their intersections with the pop zeitgeist but have sustained working careers on either side of those moments by playing it low key.

"To be honest, we could easily go over there and live there: we've got plenty of support," explains Nash who, like his sister, has had a son in the past two years and discovered there's something to be said for having a permanent home.

"But it comes back to: why are you doing this? Not that you sneeze at having a major deal in America and we're very serious about it. But we're also very serious about quality of life and the families. I don't believe you just go because it's there. One day Kasey will have a very healthy career in America, but we'll do it on our terms."

And is Chambers prepared to sacrifice more of this life for America?

"Not even a little bit," she says. "I'm not willing to sacrifice anything to be honest. Warner have been really good, but we're not number one on their priority list. That's OK. They're not number one on my priority list, they never will be."

For now it's a case of keeping control rather than escalation, no matter the risks involved.

"I just want to have a handle on my career; I don't want it to slip away from me," Chambers says urgently.

"I don't want to be a celebrity. I know that people recognise me everywhere I go, but I don't think people look at me like a celebrity like Kylie or Delta. I don't sell magazines for people."

Across the road the hockey players are carving furrows in the sodden ground, their breath steaming briefly in the frigid air before being washed away by the persistent rain.

Chambers gets up from her seat and heads back to her room unnoticed by them. Just the way she likes it.

Wayward Angel is out now.

Lots of news

July 27, 2004

While we've been busy on the road, lots of things have been happening! Thankyou to everyone who was so understanding about the postponed Newcastle Show. Kasey was thrilled that so many people could make it to the Sunday night. We shot the video clip for 'Hollywood' there the next day and there was a great turn out of fans who helped make a great clip. It's at TV this week, so you should catch it on Video Hits this weekend as well as CMC (fingers crossed!). Kasey is attending ARIA #1's function and then performing 'Hollywood' on ROVE Tues August 3. She'll then be doing an acoustic version of the single on NOVA Breakfast Melb & Syd & Adel (4 & 5th Aug respectively) as well as on 2GB and the Kyle & Jackie's drivetime show on 2dayfm, Fox & B105. Dates to be confirmed. The single tracklisting is 'Hollywood', Top Of The World (live from DVD) and Like A Rive (Live from Music Max) and it's instore August 9!

Hollywood

The stunning single from the album Wayward Angel will be out on the 9th August

Track Listing:
1. Hollywood
2. Top Of The World (Live)
3. Like A River (Live)

Fans get upset as Kasey postponed show

Most of Kasey's fans were a little upset at the news that Kasey was not well

Last night's Kasey show at The Civic theatre in Newcastle has been postponed until Sunday 18th July due to Kasey having a Sore Throat. Cold comfort to the approximately 6000 people who will turn up, only to read these signs on the doors. The decision obviously has been a last minute one due to the fact that there had been NO radio broadcasts or public notification on their behalf. I only have to travel about an hour to get home from this dissapointing evening, It is the people who have travelled hundreds of Km's, are staying in motels and won't be able to make the Sunday show that I feel sorry for. I apologise if this thread seems a bit harsh but I am just in a really let down mood at the moment. I know if Kasey's voice was not good, that she would not want to risk doing any damage, and I do hope that she recovers quickly. I'm sure that she would not like to perform a show not to the best of her ability. We would all be pretty annoyed if that had happened. Get Well Kasey, and I will see you from the 4th row on Sunday Night.

Well...what can I say! I don't know wheather to laugh or cry...it's about an hour and a half drive from Avoca... I was 10 minutes drive away from the theatre, when I received a call on my mobile from the Civic Theatre...saying the show was cancelled, due to Kasey having a throat infection, we still went to the theatre to check, seeing we were so close! But, alas it was indeed true!!!!How dissapointment!!! I too feel for the people who travelled far & wide, like Taryn & Bundygirl... Although, I understand why Kasey had to cancel...
Get Well Kasey...we still love ya!
I'll be there in the 4th row Sunday night too! (that's if I can change my shift at work...sheesh!)

Well after months of waiting, a 2 hour trip and with 2nd row seats, to be greeted at the door of the Civic and be told that the show was cancelled, well what more can I say. Unfortuantley Sunday show is impossible for me and my friends to attend and if so ill as not to be able to preform tonight what guarantee is there that the Saturday and Sunday shows will go ahead ? Lets hope that Kasey's star is not so high and bright that she feels she can cancel shows at anytime at short notice whenever she has a cough.

U.S. Tour Dates

Wed 11/03/04 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
Thu 11/04/04 Los Angeles, CA El Rey Theatre
Sun 11/07/04 Austin, TX La Zona Rosa
Mon 11/08/04 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse
Tue 11/09/04 Asheville, NC Orange Peel
Thur11/11/04 Washington, DC
Fri 11/12/04 Somerville, MA Somerville Theatre
Sat 11/13/04 Northampton, MA
Sun 11/14/04 Philadelphia, PA
Tue 11/16/04 New York, NY Irving Plaza
Thu 11/18/04 Milwaukee, WI Potawatomi Casino
Fri 11/19/04 Chicago, IL Vic Theatre
Sat 11/20/04 Saint Paul, MN

Exclusive Web Chat with Kasey Chambers

June 2, 2004

To help celebrate the release of Kaseys new album NineMsn will be hosting a exclusive Web chat with Kasey. It will be held on Monday, June 14 @ 7.30pm AEST and you can go to the NineMsn Kasey feature site - for more details.

Tour Info

Kasey Chambers will head out onto the road in July in support of her third solo album 'Wayward Angel', which is being released on May 31st.

The tour commences on July 15 in Taree and wraps up in Cairns in September. It's the biggest tour Kasey and her band have ever undertaken and its announcement this week follows the release to radio of 'Like A River' - the first track to be lifted from 'Wayward Angel'.

Tickets are on sale from Monday May 17 - the full list of dates are on my Tour Page.

'Like A River' goes to radio

So time has finally come! 'Like A River' will be at all local Australian radio stations and video programs this Monday 10th May. Crossing our fingers they add to their playlists early on and you guys get to see/hear it first. Many stations will be playing at 8.00am on Monday morning. We'll be confirming Kasey's media whereabouts over the coming weeks, and tour dates will be posted on this site next Thursday 13th May.

Like a River

Sometimes you walk like an angel
Sometimes you walk like a man
Sometimes you crawl like a baby
Makes me forget who I am
Have you ever been held before
Like honey to the bee
I've never been held before
Like you hold me

Chorus:
You make me feel like a river
Like a water overflow
Wanna shout it out from the Mountain
Wanna sing it on the radio
I'll sell my soul like a sinner
If it means you'll never go

I think the sun is finally rising
Its burning down because I miss you
I'm gonna walk right through the fires
Cos all I wanna do is kiss you
Rain falls, won't wash this away
I'll build a stonewall to make you stay

Chorus:
You make me feel like a river
Like a water overflow
Wanna shout it out from the Mountain
Wanna sing it on the radio
I'll sell my soul like a sinner
If it means you'll never go

Chorus:
You make me feel like a river
Like a water overflow
Wanna shout it out from the Mountain
Wanna sing it on the radio
I'll sell my soul like a sinner
If it means you'll never go

Never gooooooo
Never gooooo

WAYWARD ANGEL GEARING UP

April 27, 2004

We're now 2 weeks away from Like A River going into radio stations for play (fingers crossed). This weekend we filmed the video up in Brisbane, just outside the QUT on the Botanical Gardens. In the coming weeks Kasey will be busy doing loads of interviews and promotion and we will keep you abreast of all tv/radio appearances. There is also an Australian tour announcement imminent, so stay tuned for that in the next 3 weeks also. More news as the big day (May 31st) draws nearer!

!!!!KASEY'S NEW ALBUM!!!!

March 30, 2004

Well I'm happy to say I can finally announce the date of my new album release - May 31st. The album is called Wayward Angel and is a collection of moments from my life over the past 3 years. There are 14 original songs that I'm dying to share with you all. I thank you for being so patient while I've been writing, recording and spending quality time with my family. I feel as though this album best represents who I am and can't wait to hear your feedback. Enjoy! Love Kasey.

Go to the 'Merchandise Page' and check out Di Chambers merch bargains. Prices are only reduced until end of April (or while stocks last!) Don't miss out.

Sinatra Records Kasey Chambers

27th March 2004

Kasey Chambers has had one of her songs covered by Sinatra … Nancy Sinatra, that is.
Nancy Sinatra has covered 'Barricades and Brickwalls', the title track from Kasey's second album, for her upcoming record.
The new Nancy Sinatra album reunites her with former singing partner Lee Hazelwood. This will be their third album together. Warner Music will release the album Nancy Lee 3 on April 30.

HI TO EVERYONE

March 10, 2004

A quick hello and a peak at what I've been up to....The moment we arrived back home after Tamworth we went straight into the studio to start recording the new album. We were lucky enough to have Steuart Smith on guitar over from the states, who is better known for his work in The Eagles and Shaun Colvins Band.......also on guitar was Mark Punch from Sydney who played on The Captain and Barricades & Brickwalls. Bass guitar was Jeff McCormack (also engineering) and on accoustic Rod McCormack. We split the drumming between 2 great players Kerry Buchanan and John Watson. Extras will be dad, Glen Hannah, Mick Albeck and a few more yet. My brother Nash is again producing......it's all going well and I'll keep you posted on when it's coming out. Not too far away now. I can't wait. Until then keep safe. Kasey

Kasey Chambers To Receive American Country Award

Feb 16, 2004

The Country Music Association of Nashville has named Kasey Chambers the 2004 Global Country Music Artist.
The award is given to artists who make country music more popular in their own country. With the amount of platinum records on Kasey's wall, she certainly has done that in Australia.
In 2002, Kasey had both the number one single (Not Pretty Enough) and album (Barricades and Brickwalls) on the Australian chart.
Barricades and Brickwalls has now sold over 400,000 units in Australia. Her first album, The Captain, is over 300,000.

The CMA has also awarded the late Slim Dusty a posthumous award for this contribution to Australian Music.

KASEY TAKES COUNTRY AUSMUSIC

KASEY CHAMBERS has taken out the 2003 Country Australian Live Music Award announced in Adelaide on Friday night.

Now in its fifth year, the Australian Live Music Awards provide an opportunity to showcase and award Australia's best music industry participants both on stage and behind the scenes. This year's Awards took place on Friday November 21 at the Garage Club, Adelaide, during the Fuse Festival (formerly Music Business Adelaide).

Hi there!!

November 13, 2003

Haven't been up to much lately - but here's a little re-cap. Well, August kicked in with the BEST tour, I think we've ever done. It was just so much fun. We started off in South QLD and luckily all the shows were sold out. All the same band - Jeff on bass, BJ on drums, Dad & Glen on guitars etc and same crew - Worm on lights, Nash on sound, Pendo, Mum, Bern and Aaron (the tour manager)and a couple of new extras - Rod McCormack (Jeff's brother) on banjo, acoustic and mandolin and Pete Dyball working the guitars behind the scenes. This whole combination made it the best touring party ever. We then did some shows a little closer to home for a week and we all got to see our families a bit, which was great, but it doesn't take us all long to get back out on the road again. We were lucky enough to have Shane Nicholson (one of Australia's finest singer/songwriter) came out to open all the shows for us. His album 'It's a Movie' sold out in the first few shows and I had the pleasure of coming out on stage and singing a song with him every night. When we headed off to Adelaide and Melbourne we picked up my favourite, Fred Eaglesmith along the way and also had him on the show. Everyone in the band had to learn to perform with "Sore laughing muscles" as Fred just never stopped telling jokes and keeping us all generally amused. It had always been my dream to perform with Fred and it had finally come true. With the combination of Fred, Shane, the amazing audiences we played to and all the great people I got to tour with, I really thought all my Christmases had come at once. It almost made me a little disappointed that after the tour we were going home to take a block of time off. But now I am here at home, about 2 months into my time off and I'm realising that hanging with my boys - Talon my son and Cori my partner - is just as much fun too. So it's all good. I'm getting the chance to write a lot of new songs for the next album. So we should head back into the studio to work on some new stuff in the near future. Can't wait to share some new songs with you all. Until then I'm gonna chill at home and be a normal mum for a while and work on a new album. I hope I see you all at Tamworth again for our free show in the park on the Friday night (23rd January). Can't wait. Til then,

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Love Kasey

Hello Everyone!

August 5, 2003

Well you could say I'm like a little kid waiting for Christmas. I've literally been counting down the sleeps until my tour starts (which is now only 1 more sleep)! We have a bunch of new songs to try out on you all and we've been brushing up on all the old ones too. We have one of my most favourite artists, Shane Nicholson, opening up for us which will be a highlight for me to see every night. A rare talent! I can't wait to get out and see you all and hope you enjoy it. See ya at the gig. KASE

17th Annual ARIA Awards - Tuesday October 21st , Sydney Superdome, Olympic Park General Public Tickets on Sale - Thursday September 4th Nominations Announced - Monday September 22nd

Kasey Back On The Road!

August 3, 2003

Kasey will kick of her Australian tour this Weds August 6th with the 1st show at the Gold Coast Arts Centre.

The tour will wrap up at the Gympie Muster on August 30th in front of an expected crowd of 40,000 plus.

A family affair for Kasey Chambers

Monday, June 23, 2003
(CNN) -- Australian country singer-songwriter Kasey Chambers doesn't know what she'd do if she weren't riding around in a couple of tour buses with her parents, her brother, her infant son, her boyfriend and her band.

"I would find it very strange to be on the road without my family. It's really second nature to me," Chambers said.

It's not surprising that Chambers feels this close connection with her family: The 27-year-old spent the first 10 years of her life seeing few people other than her parents and her brother, Nash.

When Kasey was a baby, the Chambers family set out for the Australian Outback, living in a land cruiser and getting by on fox hunting.

Listening to country records and singing along to dad Bill Chambers' guitar playing was their main form of entertainment.

Since then, Chambers has taken those early influences and her participation in an all-family act, The Dead Ringer Band, and spun it into a successful solo career.

She won an ARIA, Australia's top music award, in 2000 for best female artist, and her most recent album, "Barricades and Brickwalls" (Warner Bros.) has received critical praise.

Chambers just finished a U.S. tour and will start an Australian tour in August. TMR caught up with Chambers on a recent American tour to hear more about how she arrived where she is today.

TMR: Give us the history - going back into the country, back into the Outback. How did you get involved in the music business?

CHAMBERS: I spent the first 10 years of my life living on the Nullarbor Plain. It's kind of like a big desert that runs across Australia. My mum and dad packed up the family when I was 3-weeks-old. My brother was 3 and [we] moved to the Outback of Australia and [my father] became a fox hunter. ... So we lived this really, kinda isolated lifestyle out there for 10 years.

We didn't see people for months on end. The only attachment to civilization was the tea and sugar train that we would get all our supplies from. This train would run across the middle of Australia every few months. We would get on the train and stop off and go to a grocery store. ... This was practically the only time we would see people really.

My dad would hunt by night. We would get in our car; we lived in our car. We had bunks made up in the back of the car -- it was a land cruiser. And off we'd go just after dark. My dad would hunt through the night. ... Every day we would wake up in a different place, you know? Kinda like gypsies really. My brother and I would wake up and explore around the camp, you know, because it was a place we had never been before. Most of the places were red flat dirt, but it was still kind of exciting getting up in a new place every day.

We had no form of TV, radio or anything like that. The only entertainment we had was my dad playing the guitar. That's where we liked to sing. Music was a really big part of our lives back then. Our dad would play tapes all the time -- Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Hank Williams and others. My dad would play songs and we would all sing along.

TMR: What about when you moved back to town?

CHAMBERS: When I was about 10 years old we sort of moved back to civilization -- which was where my parents had grown up - a little town called Southend. It was not really a city. It was like 200 people, but it felt like a big city to me. So we spent the next few years around there, and I went to normal school, lived the normal lifestyle for a little while.

We started a band -- The Dead Ringer Band. My mum and dad, brother and myself and a couple of local musicians would come in and play. We had a great time. And then we started traveling away, taking the band throughout Australia. We weren't all that popular, but I think we just had that itchy travel bug.

TMR: And now you're touring with your family. What's that like?

CHAMBERS: It's great. I don't know any different. I would find it very strange to be on the road without my family. It's really second nature to me. I've always played in a band with my dad. My brother, he produces my albums, so we spend a lot of time together in the studio. We see each other every day anyway. We both just had babies. We see each other socially, as well. My brother also does the front house sounds. He's on tour with us.

My mum sells the merchandise on the road, helps out with looking out for the kids. So it works really, really well. And I am lucky now because I get to take my own family as well. I have my own 8-month-old son and his dad on the road with us. It's fantastic. I love it. This is my life. I wouldn't want to swap it for anything. It's so natural for me to be on the road and to be doing this, you know? I wouldn't know what to do with myself if I had to stay home.

CNN.com's Marnie Hunter contributed to this report.

A DRUMMERS DIARY - PART 3

June 5, 2003

Jambalaya, Gumbo, Blackened Catfish, the list goes on. Great food, but we're here to gig, and so we did. The gig tonight is at the House of Blues, right in amongst the French Quarter surrounded by the tourist trap shops, Antiques, shops that sell you all you need for Voodoo ceremonies and bars where happy hour is 2 free drinks for every one you buy. The venue itself is what you'd expect, lots of balconies, wood and New Orleans flavour. And the gig went allright too! The next day was another day off, which some of us spent doing things like a swamp tour or shopping (nearly everyone else), while some of us suffered the worst hangover in our life (me) and hibernated in the bus all day. Bit of a waste really, but at least I rested up. The swamp tour party had fun though! We lost one of our fellow travellers today though, but not in the swamp! as Melita is flying back to Australia to take care of things back home. A bit more room on the baby bus now. But no, we are sorry to see her go, but theres gonna be more red winr left on the rider for the band to drink. We left at midnight for an 8 hour drive to Atlanta, Georgia, where we are plying the Variety Playhouse. This is our 3rd show here, so we're almost locals. Another really cool area for eats, and very bohemian in style. After another well recieved gig, we were again on the bus for another drive through the night. This time we're heading to the home of country music, Nashville, Tennessee. So I'll have a beer or two, put on a movie and talk to you later. B.J.Barker

A DRUMMERS DIARY - CHAPTER 2

June 2, 2003

A big Arizona Howdy to "all'ya'll." We left L.A. around 1am after a very sucessful gig. It's always a treat to play here, and it is the place to catch up with some good friends that we've made on our travels. Lucinda Williams came for the show, along with her guitarist Dougy, telling us about her new album. The songwriter of "True Colours" came to say hi, as well as a few homesick Aussies. We're now on the way to Austin, Tx., just passing thru Touscon, Arizona. Lots of desert, cactii and not much else. This is where eveything looks like the Wild West. Scorpions, Rattlesnakes, Jackrabbits, Groundhogs.... and the Buzzards are circling.......! Made it. After a few rest stops we pulled into Austin around 4am on Sat morning. It's cold now, we passed through snow and rain during the night. Beanies and gloves are the order from now on I feel. Tonights show at the La Zona Rosa, made famous in Bill's song "Dreaming about Texas" should be fantastic. We had the best show here last tour so I'm really looking forward to it. Well, the show was a blast. The support from the punters here is unbelievable. There was a lot of old friends in the crowd, which is always a cool thing. Kase is feeling a bit crook, but she'll be right in a day or two. After the show we traveled to Dallas, Texas. Driving into town we passed the famous "Grassy Knoll" and the book depository where J.F.K. was shot whichwas pretty sobering. The gig was at the Gypsy Tearoom, a really cool venue, where the sounddesk is actually part of the bar! Lucky Nash and Worm don't like a beer! After the show, it's another 10 hour ride to New Orleans, home of the best food I've ever had in my life. Next update will be from there. B.J.Barker

CMAA Salutes Kasey Chambers

May 30, 2003

The Country Music Association of Australia, the nation's peak country music industry body, has paid tribute to the achievements of Kasey Chambers, one of its newest and brightest stars.
Last week, Kasey won three APRA Music Awards, which, together with other awards over the last few years, give her a tally of more achievements than most artists gain in a lifetime.
Kasey dominated the APRA Awards with her song Not Pretty Enough which won three... Song of the Year (considered the top honour), Most Performed Australian Work and Most Performed Country Work. She now has five APRA awards, more than any other female Australian artist.
In addition, Kasey has won four Golden Guitars and five ARIA Awards and both of her albums have sold well over platinum status... The Captain three times, Barricades & Brickwalls six times.
"These are remarkable achievements," said CMAA President John Williamson. "Kasey is an amazing talent and wonderful songwriter and deserves all the awards she has received for songwriting, recording and performing in recent years."

"The CMAA salutes Kasey Chambers - a shining light for Australia both here and overseas."

A DRUMMER'S DIARY - Tales from the Feb 2003 US Tour

May 30, 2003

A big howdy to all from the U.S. once again. Welcome to The Kasey Chambers North American Tour, 2003. We have a lot to catch up on, but I have a 24 hour bus trip, from L.A. to Austin, to bring ya'll up to speed. Firstly, theres the small group we have on the road this time. Theres Kasey, Cori & Talon, Nash, Veronica & Eden, Dianne, Melita, Worm, Bill, Jeff, Glen, Beej, our hard working tour manager Greggles "Wilky", then our stage techs Roy & Branden. Then of course we have our bus drivers Tim, who is back for a second time, and Jason, who wanders what he's got into! Thats the most we have ever had. Glad we have two busses this time. We flew into San Francisco, and after a night off to get over jet-lag, we did a show at the Moore Theatre, in Seattle. A cool gig, with very nice food. The next night we played in Portland, OR, at the Roseland Theatre and that was pretty cool too. Tried out some new songs, which is always good fun. We got on our busses and travelled all night to Monterey, just south of Sisco, for a couple of days rest'n'rec. Boy we needed them! Sleep, beers, food, more beers, sleep and fishing were enjoyed by all. After 2 days, we needed to get back to doing what we're here for. Gigging. Back up to San Francisco, and the gigs at the famous Fillmore West. An amazing venue, the artwork for the gig posters over the last 30 years or so is out of this world. Again a pretty cool show, and a surprise for Kase, the two doctors, Robin & Tom who helped on that fateful night last tour! Tonight we're in L.A. for a sold out show at the Elray Theatre. Don't know how it went yet, we'll see later on shall we!

SONG OF THE YEAR

Not Pretty Enough

MOST PERFORMED AUSTRALIAN WORK

Not Pretty Enough

MOST PERFORMED COUNTRY WORK

Not Pretty Enough

Kasey scoops APRA awards pool

Dino Scatena

20may03

COUNTRY star Kasey Chambers was crowned belle of the ball at yet another music awards ceremony last night, this time taking out three APRA songwriting awards for her hit Not Pretty Enough.
Chambers, who went into last night's festivities as the reigning Australasian Performing Right Association's songwriter of the year, nabbed the coveted song of the year prize at the intimate ceremony staged in the ballroom of Sydney's Four Seasons hotel.
Not Pretty Enough, the biggest-selling single by an Australian artist in 2002, also took out the plaques for most performed Australian work and most performed country work.

May 20, 2003

At the 2003 APRA Awards held last night Kasey took home 3 awards including 'Song Of The Year' for her #1 single, 'Not Pretty Enough'.
'Not Pretty Enough' also picked up awards for 'Most Performed Australian Work' and 'Most Performed Country Work'.
Kaseys 3 APRA Awards last night, plus her award in 2002 for 'Songwriter of the Year' and the award for Most Performed Country Work for 'The Captain' in 2001, make Kasey the recipient of the most APRA music awards received by any Australian female artist.

Nominees Announced for 2003 APRA Music Awards

May 1, 2003

Five songs reflecting love, loss, regret and whimsical nostalgia have taken out nominations in the prestigious 'Song of the Year' category for the forthcoming 2003 APRA MUSIC AWARDS.

The nominations, which were anounced today at a media event in Sydney, see a new breed of young songwriters come of age with such modern classics as Kasey Chambers' 'Not Pretty Enough', Silverchair's 'The Greatest View' and 'Without You', Grinspoon's 'Chemical Heart' and The Waifs 'London Still' nominated for 'Song of the Year'. The nominated songs in this category have enjoyed immense individual popularity and will make for an intriguing finish when the winner is announced at the 2003 APRA Music Awards on Monday May 19th.

Kasey Chambers again leads the nominations tally with a total of 5 nominations, including 3 nominations for her enduring anthem 'Not Pretty Enough'. Silverchair cap off a triumphant return to the live arena with 3 nominations including two for their hit the 'The Greatest View'.

Enmore Theatre Show added to Tour Dates

April 28, 2003

A show at Sydney's Enmore Theatre has been added to Kaseys tour on
August 15th. This show is ALL AGES show.
On sale dates for this new show, and the previously announced dates, will be announced in the near future

True Covers

Kasey Chambers has just begin her first ever solo tour of WA. As well as concerts at the Perth Concert Hall on Sunday, April 20, and Sunday, April 27, Chambers and her band will also take in Moora (April 19), Mandurah (April 22 and April 26) and Bunbury (April 25). Just out is a single featuring her cover of True Colours, which is the theme for the upcoming Rugby World Cup. POLLY COUFOS reports.

Kasey Chambers is pottering around her house just north of Sydney. She is preparing to head to producer brother Nash's recording studio where she'll lay down a vocal for her contribution to a Dolly Parton tribute album. She's doing Little Sparrow but wishes she had been able to snag her favourite Dolly song, Jolene. She got there behind Natalie Merchant on that one and doesn't mind.

Of the many things appealing about Kasey Chambers, her nature goes a long way to matching the plaintive beauty of her songs and singing. It's in the way she can be in awe of saying the words Natalie Merchant as if the former 10,000 Maniac is something she isn't. Her feet remain planted on the ground while she has these stars in her eyes, which is all the more remarkable given the past couple of years she has had.

Her second album Barricades And Brickwalls has gone over four times platinum and heaven knows attitude is often presented usually after the first time an artist passes that metallic marker. Better still was the fact that Chambers made an album that made no attempt to chase an audience, indeed it was the audience who came looking for her. One of the most common expressions heard in the last year with Chambers has been 'I don't like country music but I like Kasey Chambers' and there was no escaping the fact that Chambers had done the unthinkable, she had taken a country album to the top of the pop charts.

For her part she is amazed every time she learns someone she admires could be a fan of her music. Like Billy Steinberg, co-writer of True Colours. On a LA stop on her recent US tour (a tour that was cut short when Chambers suffered a vocal haemorrhage. It is not as bad as it sounds and she was on the mend soon after.) Chambers learned that Steinberg was in the audience and had requested to meet her. She was very excited figuring that somebody had fixed up the meeting after telling Steinberg about her recording of his Cyndi Lauper hit. Not so.

"He didn't know anything about it," Chambers says with her ever present laugh. "He just came along because he was a fan and I was really stoked he come up on the bus and got a few photos taken with him and everything and we played him our version. We'd only just finished mixing it before we went away. " Steinberg was pleased to learn of the song's new life at the other end of the world. As well as being her new single you can expect the song will be back on our TVs soon in the lead up to the World Cup.

Initially there had been no thought of releasing the song. To that end Nash had only mixed the 40 seconds of the song heard in the ad. After many requests the song was added to the live set and from there it wasn't a hard call to see the benefit of getting it in stores. The song had been part of Chambers' pre-teen repertoire with the Dead Ringer Band and so already had a firm connection to her heart.

Chambers is unsure yet as to whether she will be performing the song during the Cup. She reckons it would be a great honour, but is more excited that being a Aussie Rules girl (Carlton is her choice of poison) the World Cup final may be her first game of rugby.

True Colours also contains two previously unreleased tracks, live favourite If I Could and Lonely, written by her partner and director of the True Colours video, Cori Hopper. It is Hopper's first solo composition and the recording originated as a treat for him. It was written on the first night Chambers had spent away from their 10 month old son Talon

"When I came back he had this full song and it took him half a day to play it to me 'cause he was really embarrassed but he finally played it and it's just such a beautiful song. I got him to play it to me a few times. The next day I called up Nash, - I didn't tell Cori that I was doing it - but I called up Nash and said, 'could we put down this song 'cause it's like really good and I would just love to do a version of it to give to Cori.'" Mutual friend Shane Nicholson contributed guitar and harmonies. The song turned out so well Chambers immediately decided to add it to the True Colours single.

"I went home to Cori and asked if he wanted to hear the B side for the True Colours single, and put it on without telling him his song was on there and he was very chuffed, very excited," she laughs, "so he's a songwriter now." He's keeping great company.

Columbia Press

Nominees for the 28th Annual Australian Entertainment 'MO' Awards To be held Monday 16th June 2003 – Sydney Entertainment Centre

Australian Showbusiness Ambassador of the Year

Vanessa Amorosi
Kasey Chambers
Kylie Minogue
James Morrison
Silverchair

Australian Performer of the Year

Vanessa Amorosi
Kasey Chambers
George
Kylie Minogue
James Morrison
Swan Lake – The Australian Ballet Co

Female Country Performer of the Year

Kel-Anne Brandt
Beccy Cole
Kasey Chambers
Felicity
Melinda Schneider

Kasey Announces Australian Tour Dates

April 16, 2003
New tour dates in August have just been announced for Kasey!! For all dates please check out the tour section.

On sale dates for tickets will be announced shortly.

March 11 2003
Just a quick update for you all . My voice is doing fine. I've been resting it for two weeks now, as advised by a specialist and it's done the world of good. All is back to normal. Thank you for all the get well wishes from everyone. They worked. Love Kasey

Postponed US Tour Dates Rescheduled

March 6 2003
Dates that were postponed on Kaseys US tour have now been rescheuled for the following dates -

Wednesday June 11, Calvin Theater - Northampton, MA
Thursday June 12, Irving Plaza - New York, NY
Friday June 13, Berklee Performance Ctr. - Boston, MA.

*NEWS FLASH*
28th Feb 2003
Unfortunately, Kasey has suffered a haemorrhaged vocal cord and therefore the remaining dates on this US tour - Irving Plaza, New York; Calvin Theatre, Northampton; Berklee Performance Centre, Boston - have been cancelled, as has her appearance on Conan O'Brien. These shows will be rescheduled as soon as possible and we apologise for any inconvenience. Kasey would like to thank all her fans for their incredible support throughout the US tour over the past 4 weeks.

Feb 27...Late Night Show with Conan O'Brien New York, USA ..... CANCELLED

Feb 27...Irving Plaza New York, New York, USA ..... CANCELLED

Feb 28...Calvin Theatre Northampton, Massachusetts, USA ..... CANCELLED

Mar 1...Berklee Performance Center Boston, Massachusetts, USA ..... CANCELLED

KASEY COMES BACK TO AUSTRALIA

Apr 18...East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival Byron Bay, NSW AUS

Apr 19...Moora Country Campout Moora, WA AUS

Apr 20...Perth Concert Hall Perth, WA AUS

Apr 22...Mandurah Performing Arts Centre Mandurah, WA AUS

Apr 24...Bunbury Entertainment Centre Bunbury , WA AUS *NEW*

Apr 25...Bunbury Entertainment Centre Bunbury, WA AUS

Apr 26...Mandurah Performing Arts Centre Mandurah, WA AUS

Apr 27...Perth Concert Hall Perth, WA AUS *NEW*

Chambers cancels US tour

02mar03

AUSTRALIAN country music sensation Kasey Chambers has cancelled her US tour after damaging a vocal cord in her throat. Chambers had three concerts to perform before returning to Australia but was ordered by doctors to rest after Wednesday night's performance in Philadelphia. A spokeswoman for the 26-year-old singer songwriter, whose Pretty Enough, was voted the most Australia's most popular song last year, had said Chambers' vocal injury was sudden. "She did the show on Wednesday night, woke up on Thursday morning and couldn't talk," she said. The spokeswoman said Kasey had burst a blood vessel in a vocal cord, a common injury of overuse among singers. Disappointed fans in New York fans were turned away from New York City's famous Irving Plaza Concert hall on Thursday night and shows in Boston and Northampton have also been cancelled. It is the second time the award-winning artist has been forced to cut short an American tour in the past year because of illness. Seven months pregnant at the time, Chambers fainted during a concert in San Francisco in February last year and was ordered to rest by doctors. Her current US tour, to relaunch her Barricades and Brickwalls album, has been garnering rave reviews. A message on Chambers' website apologises to fans and promises the scrapped shows will be rescheduled as soon as possible. It is not known whether she will be able to go ahead with upcoming Australian performances, including the East Coast Blues & Roots Music festival at Byron Bay in Easter.

Friday 25th October, 2002

Kasey's Gig At The Palais in St Kilda, Melbourne.

Simon Bruce was the first on stage, at only 17 years of age he was fantastic!!
He sang 5 songs, which were:-

Rise and shine
Bad enough
Rainbow hotel
Meet me in the cold
The final straw

After 20 mins or so Troy Cassar-Daley came out on stage.
He sang 8 songs:-

My dreaming place
Rise n shine
I wish I was a train
Night Blindness
Long way home
Make the most
Dream out loud
Born to survive

It was fantastic to finally see Troy, I met him after the show and had a few pictures with him. :)

At around 9.30pm there was a surprise appearance by Talon through the curtain. Much to everyone's delight and I am hoping that my pictures turn out.
Then Kasey and the band came out on stage and she looked gorgeous!!
The set list is as follows:-

Barricades and Brickwalls
If I Were You
If I Could
This Flower
Little Bit Lonesome
Nullabor Song
Freight Train
Stories We Could Tell......with Bill Chambers
In Spite Of Ourselves......with Glen Hannah
I Still Pray......with Troy and Glen
True Colors
On A Bad Day
Happy Birthday to Glen Hannah
Runaway Train
Not Pretty Enough......with Jemmina and Jaylee
Dont Talk Back
We're All Gonna Die Someday

The crowd went wild to get Kasey to come back out for an encore. Which she happily did!!

ENCORE

The Captain
Crossfire

Jemmina and Jaylee were standing near us at the front of the stage and were so excited when they were able to give Kasey a picture. Then Kasey called them to help her sing NPE much to the delight of the two girls and their parents!
We took heaps of photo's and will post them after approval from Kasey. All and all we had a brilliant night!! We also caught up with Di after the show, she was out the front on the merchandise stand and was very busy.

TARA BROWN: Of course, Kasey has her own family now. Baby Talon may have been an unplanned addition, but Kasey and partner Corey Hopper can't get enough of parenthood. You weren't expecting to be a dad so soon, were you?

COREY HOPPER: No, not at all. No. It was the greatest surprise of my life, actually. It came totally out of left field, but couldn't have been happier. It was a good mistake to make, I think. Is that the right way to say it?

TARA BROWN: The pair moved in together two years ago and Corey, an actor and director, quickly became part of the family business, appearing in and directing some of Kasey's video clips. For a girl who was brought up in the back of a car, does she have any bad home habits?

COREY HOPPER: She gives me her toe nails when she cuts them off.

KASEY CHAMBERS: I don't!

COREY HOPPER: She does! She thinks I have some fascination with her toe nails. She says "Here, do you want this?" just when we're sitting around watching TV.

KASEY CHAMBERS: What's your father doing?!

COREY HOPPER: By the end of a Friends episode I've got a little handful of them. It's outrageous.

KASEY CHAMBERS: What's he doing to me?!

TARA BROWN: What do you expect him to do with the toe nails?

KASEY CHAMBERS: I don't know. They're mine, he should love them.

COREY HOPPER: All I know is I'm consistently vacuuming them up off the floor, so ...

KASEY CHAMBERS: You're mean!

COREY HOPPER: Is that too much? Am I in trouble for that?

KASEY CHAMBERS: Yes!

KASEY CHAMBERS: "I'm not Britney Spears and I'm never going to be and I don't even want to be. I love my job; I wouldn't swap it for anything in the world. It's fantastic. I love making music. I appreciate every part of it and I absolutely love it."

This DVD is onsale now and can be bought from a few outlets over the net and most large record stores.
However it will soon be available from Kasey's Mum Di, through the Merchandising link on our page and also Kasey's Page. Available early November.

Kasey WINS 3 ARIA's!

October 21, 2002

At the 16th Annual ARIA Awards held at Sydney's Superdome on 15th October, Kasey Chambers picked up the Awards for the following :

1. BEST COUNTRY ALBUM
2. BEST FEMALE ARTIST
3. ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Kasey had 6 nominations in total and is thrilled to be honored with these awards. On the night Kasey performed her version of Cyndi Lauper's hit 'True Colours', joined by John Butler from The John Butler Trio. This single won't be available to purchase until mid 2003 when it is released to coincide with the World Rugby titles. Kaseys current album 'Barricades & Brickwalls' has now jumped back into the number 4 position.

Did you miss the Rove Live performance and interview?

August 6, 2002

Kasey recently had her first TV appearance since baby Talon came along with Rove Live to promote her next national tour in October. After a great interview, Kasey performed her current single 'Million Tears' to a very appreciative audience. CLICK HERE TO WATCH ROVE AND KASEY! Tickets are sold out for this tour.

Kasey to perform on ROVE LIVE!

March 24, 2003
Be watching ROVE LIVE on April 15th to see Kasey Chambers perform her new single
'True Colours'.

Kasey Chambers - True Colours

March 17, 2003
On April 14th, Capitol \ Essence Records will release the Kasey Chambers single, 'True Colours'.

Kasey first performed 'True Colours', which was recorded for the 2003 Rugby World Cup, last October at the 2003 ARIA Award's and it has fast become a firm concert favourite amongst her fans.

The 'True Colour' single release also includes another long-time live favourite 'If I Could' and a new track 'Lonely'.

'True Colours' will be serviced to Radio & TV on March 24th.

DVD due out on OCT 14th!

Sept. 13th, 2002

Kasey Chambers’ first DVD, “Behind the Barricades”, will be released on October 14th.

“Behind the Barricades” is a look into the life of Kasey - on stage & off - spanning the last six years. It takes you into the studio on Norfolk Island, where Kasey recorded her ground breaking solo debut album 'The Captain' (1997) to never before seen interview footage - recorded July (2002) at brother Nash's Beach House Studio.

Other highlights include interviews with Lucinda Williams, Buddy Miller & Emmylou Harris - including Kasey’s performance with Emmylou on her 2001 US Tour, plus many more rare performances, interviews & behind the scenes footage.

The DVD also features 10 live performances, which were recorded specifically for this release at the ABC Studios in Sydney on January 19th, 2002. Performances include Patti Griffin's 'Top Of The World', Lucinda Williams’ 'Changed The Locks', live concert favourite 'We're All Gonna Die Some Day' and the #1 single 'Not Pretty Enough'.

If you’re a fan of Kasey and her music, you will revel in this visual journey of one of Australia’s finest singer-songwriters.

‘BEHIND THE BARRICADES’
INSTORE OCTOBER 14

Kasey on the Panel!

August 26, 2002

Be watching the Panel this Wednesday to witness Kasey Chambers performing her beautiful single 'Million Tears'. The Panel is on Channel 10 @ 9.30pm.

2nd Show Announced in Melbourne

August 23, 2002

If you missed out on tickets for the Sydney and Melbourne shows of the forthcoming tour, good news is that 2nd Shows are now on sale for bot. Don't miss out - tickets in all venues are selling fast.

Kasey Announces 2nd Enmore Show

August 13, 2002

Today it was announced that the 2nd & final Enmore Theatre Show in Sydney was on sale after the 1st show had completely sold out. Also selling out this week was the Evans Theatre show in Penrith.

The 2nd show Enmore Theatre show is scheduled for Thursday Oct 10th - but you better be quick - promoters expect is to sell quickly!

Kasey confirmed for ARIA performance this year!

August 13, 2002

It has been announced that Kasey Chambers will be performing on the ARIA's this year. The date for the ARIA's is 15th October this year and promises to be an even more spectacular and gala event than ever before. We can't divulge what Kasey will be singing at this point - but it will be a performance not to forget! The 1st Enmore show in Sydney is now SOLD OUT as well as the Panthers Club and Newcastle gigs. Make sure you get in quick so you don't miss out on seeing Kasey perform live for her 1st tour of 2002!

Did you miss the Rove Live performance and interview?

August 6, 2002

Kasey recently had her first TV appearance since baby Talon came along with Rove Live to promote her next national tour in October. After a great interview, Kasey performed her current single 'Million Tears' to a very appreciative audience. CLICK HERE TO WATCH ROVE AND KASEY! Tickets are getting close to sell out for this tour - best be quick to avoid disappointment.

Kasey's DVD in stores 14th OCT.

Hey there everyone!!

August 2, 2002

Well it's been an incredible few months to say the least. Certainly the happiest in my life. Talon is bringing Cori and I and all members of my extended family much love and joy. Seriously, he gets cuter every day! I'm really excited to be getting back into things now. We all had a great time in Melbourne doing Rove and chatting to Bert on GMA. Everyone was soooo nice to us, it was just a really relaxed way to get back to work. As you all probably know by now the October tour is on sale. I can't wait to get out and play again. For those of you in areas that I can't make it to this time around, my deepest apologies. Unfortunately my commitments are now two-fold and I just can't fit everywhere in. But rest assured I will be there as soon as I can be. Coming up is heaps of good stuff, including a DVD, new single and of course, the live shows.

love from Kasey

Another honour, this time for ARIA NO.1!!

August 2, 2002

Richard Wilkins said "You can't seem to walk out the front door without taking home another award" as he handed Kasey the Awards honouring her achievement of No.1 single and No.1 Album. Kasey was sincerely thrilled saying that she has "to pinch herself" constantly, the phenomenal success of this album seems so unbelievable. The most impressive statistic of the day was that the only other artist this last year to have a simultaneous No.1 single and album is Eminem. Nice one! The hour long event was very pleasant with Kasey catching up with label mates Billy Birmingham (The 12th Man) and Chris from Silverchair. Along with Ty from George, Tim Freedman of The Whitlams, the sweet Scott Cain and a 'their in spirit' only Kyles & Holly.

KASEY CRACKS ANOTHER AWARD

From KaseyFan18 off the Swarm 30-07-02

I went to the achievers awards in sydney and our Kase took out Entertainer of the Year. Her brother Nash took out producer of the year and EMI got record Label. It was a good night. I got to talk to Kase a fair bit. She actually remembered me..hehe. She also spoke to my next door neighbour's daughter...who then cried and couldnt talk afterwards. I was going to ask Kase about taking photos at Adelaide but i forgot. oh and a message from Kasey to Ronnie and Robyn "thankyou for going" thats about Rove if u didnt guess.

New Tour Dates

Supporting act Troy Cassar-Daly and Darren Coggan

Troy Cassar-Daley, who's acclaimed new album 'Long Way Home' has been released through Nash Chambers label Essence, will support Kasey in NSW, ACT and VIC. Darren Coggan will support in Qld

Oct, Wed 2nd Oct - Empire Theatre, Toowoomba
EMPIRE THEATRES
56 Neil Street
Toowoomba QLD 4350
Phone: (07) 4698 9999; 4698 9900

Oct, Thur 3rd Oct - Nambour Civic Theatre
NAMBOUR CIVIC CENTRE
Centenary Square, Currie Street
Nambour QLD 4560
Phone: (07) 5430 9333

Oct, Fri 4th Oct - Twin Towns Services Club
TWIN TOWNS SERVICES CLUB LTD
Wharf St Tweed Heads 2485 (07) 5536 2277
SHOW BOOKINGS (07) 5536 1977
DIAL & CHARGE 1800 014 014
CLUB BANORA Leisure Drv Banora Point 2486 (07) 5524 1544

Oct, sun 6th Oct - Brisbane convention Centre
BRISBANE CONVENTION & EXHIBITION CENTRE Administration Merivale St (Cnr Glenelg) South Brisbane 4101 (07) 3308 3000
Fax (07) 3308 3500
FREECALL 1800 063 308

**SOLD OUT**
Oct, Wed 9th - Enmore theatre
ENMORE THEATRE
130 Enmore Road
Newtown NSW 2042
Phone: (02) 9519 9231

Oct, Thu 10th - Enmore theatre
ENMORE THEATRE
130 Enmore Road
Newtown NSW 2042
Phone: (02) 9519 9231

**SOLD OUT**
Oct, fri 11th - Panthers - Evan Theatre
PANTHERS WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT
Mulgoa Rd Penrith 2750 (02) 4720 5555
FREECALL 1800 061 991
Adult: $33
Child under 14: $25
show starts 8pm
doors open 7.30pm

Oct, Sat 12th - Civic Centre Newcastle
CIVIC THEATRE NEWCASTLE
375 Hunter Street
Newcastle NSW 2300
Phone: (02) 4929 1561

**SOLD OUT**
Oct, Fri 25th - Palais Theatre Melbourne
PALAIS THEATRE
Lower Esplanade
St Kilda VIC 3182
Phone: (03) 9534 0651
Fax: (03) 95340262
Adult: $39
Cons: $36
Child: $29 under 15 yrs

Oct, Sat 26th - Palais Theatre Melbourne
PALAIS THEATRE
Lower Esplanade
St Kilda VIC 3182
Phone: (03) 9534 0651
Fax: (03) 95340262
Adult: $39
Cons: $36
Child: $29 under 15 yrs

Kasey on Rove Live 23rd July

On her first TV performance since little Talon arrived, Kasey will be performing her new hit single 'Million Tears'. Make sure you don't miss this!!

**We have tickets for the show**

Q:Hey guys! Anyone know if Kasey plans on coming to Melbourne for some gigs?

A:Yes, Kasey will definitely be playing a gig in Melbourne on her forthcoming tour. Tour announcement not far away now.

Back after the birth of Talon

OZ DATES

Sat Aug 17 Adelaide Entertainment Centre Adelaide, SA

Sat Sep 21 Secret Of The Outback Wirrulla, SA

On Sale Soon:
Wednesday, 24 July 2002 09:00..

Ticket pricing at Bris Convention Centre, QLD on
Sun 6 Oct 2002 8:00pm:
A Reserve
Adult ticket $43.20
Juniors 15 years and under $33.20
Pensioner and senior discount $40.20

On Sale Soon:
Wednesday, 24 July 2002 09:00..

Ticket pricing at Civic Theatre Newcastle, NSW on
Sat 12 Oct 2002 8:00pm:
A Reserve
Adult $43.20
All with id $40.20
Under 15 years $33.20
Full time with id $40.20

On Sale Soon:
Wednesday, 24 July 2002 09:00..

Ticket pricing at Enmore Theatre, NSW on
Wed 9 Oct 2002 8:00pm:
A Reserve
Adult $43.20
Junior aged 0 to 15 years $33.20
Pensioner/seniors cards $40.20
Unemployed with health care id card $40.20
Students with id $40.20

Tickets info from TICKETEK!!

MO Awards 2002

June 28, 2002

A very happy Kasey took out the award for Best Female Country Performer at the MO Awards earlier this week.

KASEY Chambers was last night named songwriter of the year at the prestigious APRA music awards.

The award, which Chambers said was one of the greatest honours of her career, capped off a memorable fortnight for the 25-year-old country musician. She gave birth to her first son Talon Jordi Hopper just 13 days ago.

APRA's board of directors said Chambers was their "unequivocal choice" for songwriter of the year.

Her single Not Pretty Enough and album Barricades and Brickwalls simultaneously reached the number one spot on the charts in March – an unprecedented feat for an Australian country artist.

"This award is honestly one of the biggest honours that I've ever had in music," Kasey said.

And baby makes three:

Country music singer Kasey Chambers with partner Cori Hopper and baby Talon Jordi.

Mum's the word for Kasey

By MICHAEL OWEN-BROWN
03jun02

KASEY Chambers has received four nominations for tonight's top Australian music awards. But Chambers said the thrill of hit singles and peer acclaim can't compare to the pure joy of becoming a mother. "Having a baby has been the most beautiful experience I've ever had in my life," Chambers said yesterday. "I've never enjoyed something quite so much as I'm enjoying being a mother, and Cori has been the most perfect father in the world." Tonight will be the first public appearance for the 25-year-old singer-songwriter since she gave birth to Talon Jordi Hopper on May 22. Although her fans - and the paparazzi - are desperate to catch a glimpse of baby Talon, they may not get the chance tonight. It is likely his grandmother will mind him at home. Two of Chambers' songs have been nominated for the major prize, song of the year, at the Australasian Performing Right Association awards at The Regent in Sydney. The songs, Runaway Train and On a Bad Day, have also been nominated in the most-performed country work category. Alex Lloyd and popular bands George and Something for Kate are also vying for the song of the year award. Lloyd - nominated for Amazing - will be absent because he is touring in Europe. Song of the year winner will see their tune performed by a mystery big-name Australian artist. Other awards nominees include dance producer paulmac and defunct pop act Savage Garden. Tonight's awards come after a tumultuous year for Chambers, who is based on the New South Wales central coast. In January, she picked up two golden guitar awards at the Tamworth Country Music Festival. Hit single Not Pretty Enough won song of the year, and Barricades and Brickwalls won top-selling album of the year. The pressure of promoting a hit album while pregnant took its toll in February, when she collapsed on stage in San Francisco. In March she became the first Australian country artist to have a single and album simultaneously at the top of the charts.

Kasey Chambers and partner Cori Hopper are now the proud & happy parents of a healthy baby boy, Talon Jordi Hopper.
Arriving at 7.27pm on May 22nd & weighing 6lb 6oz, Talon was delivered after a very short 5 hour labour.

DAWSON'S CREEK FEATURES "A MILLION TEARS"

Last Wednesday, on The WB, Kasey's song "A Million Tears" was featured on Dawson's Creek's special 100th episode. Now she's theWB's Featured Artist of the Week.

The Dawson's Creek episode "100 Light Years From Home" ends with a very disappointed and very alone Dawson standing on the beach pondering life while "A Million Tears" by Kasey Chambers breaks your heart.

A Million Tears
Release Date: 3/6/2002
Format: CD
Type: Single

And here are the Track listings

1 A Million Tears (Radio Edit)
2 Runaway Train (Live At The Metro)
3 The Captain (Live In New York)
4 Not Pretty Enough (Nova Live)

Kasey Chambers has been nominated for 4 APRA awards this year. 2 for 'Song Of The Year' and twice for 'Most Performed Country Work'

For more info you can check out the APRA WEBSITE

Updated on the 09-05-02

2002 APRA MUSIC AWARDS NOMINATIONS

To be presented on Monday 3 June 2002 at the Regent Hotel in Sydney

SONG OF THE YEAR

Title ON A BAD DAY
Artist Kasey Chambers
Writer Kasey Chambers
Publisher Gibbon Music Publishing Pty Ltd

Title RUNAWAY TRAIN
Artist Kasey Chambers
Writers Kasey Chambers, Steven Werchon
Publisher Gibbon Music Publishing Pty Ltd

MOST PERFORMED COUNTRY WORK

Title ON A BAD DAY
Artist Kasey Chambers
Writer Kasey Chambers
Publisher Gibbon Music Publishing Pty Ltd

Title RUNAWAY TRAIN
Artist Kasey Chambers
Writers Kasey Chambers, Steven Werchon
Publisher Gibbon Music Publishing Pty Ltd

Not Pretty Enough is the number 3 most added song at New Zealand Radio this week and continues to hold the #1 spot on the Australian Chart. Kasey's next live show will be August 17 headlining at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre as part of Year Of The Outback concert. Not Pretty Enough will feature in a forthcoming episode of Crossing Jordan and the Nullabor Song features in the US show Roswell. Stay tuned for Australian screening dates of those programs. Check out the first few photos from BJ's collection of 'Snaps From The Road' taken over the past few years on tours o/s and at home. We'll add a couple of new ones every week.