UK style bible “The Face” calls Katy Steele “a prodigy” and describes Little Birdy as “Lucinda Williams meets Kate Bush via Beck”. In their first visit to SXSW, Little Birdy hope people will make their own inference. Little Birdy describe their music as “melodic”, “sexy”, “textural” and “honest”. Fronted by 21-year-old singer/guitarist Katy Steele, her vocals, song writing, and sartorial splendour have attracted comparisons to Kate Bush and PJ Harvey. Katy’s band mates are Simon Leach on blues-tinged guitar, Scott O’Donoghue on bass and vocals, Fergus Deasy on keys and vocals, and Matt Chequer on drums.
Little Birdy formed in Perth during 2002 – emerging from a vibrant local scene that had already delivered exciting new groups like The Sleepy Jackson & John Butler Trio. Their self-titled debut EP spent ten weeks at #1 on the indie charts and two tracks from it – “Relapse” and “Baby Blue” – were voted into Triple J’s Hottest 100. This unprecedented feat lead Rolling Stone to pick them as “Top 10 Artists To Watch” in 2004. In 2004, Little Birdy were nominated for an ARIA (Australian Record Industry Association) award for Best Breakthrough Single for ‘Relapse’. In 2004, Little Birdy released their debut album ‘bigbiglove’ making its debut at #5 on the ARIA chart, selling over 35 000 units, and achieving GOLD status. ‘bigbiglove’ launch tour was a sell-out in all cities in Australia. And in case you were wondering Little Birdy got their name from a song by Ween OK?
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Philip Stevens Mgt