Hit albums and sold-out shows: The startling success of Australia’s Spacey Jane | CMscreens
The rock band is the electric through-line of Australian popular music: vocals, guitars, bass, and drums, whatever the decade. But if the instruments stay much the same, what those groups represent changes sharply, to reflect their times. Thinks of the Easybeats in the 1960s, with their immigrant drive, or the defiant passion of Cold Chisel in the 1970s, who refused to toe any line dictated by authority.
Sitting in his Christchurch hotel room, midway through a New Zealand tour, Caleb Harper talks about Spacey Jane with unadorned honesty, as if it’s the mechanism that gives him both purpose and satisfaction. Rock’s traditional taxonomy dictates that bands are gangs, or a boys’ club, but Spacey Jane feels both broader and necessarily inclusive: something to share with people close to you, a business to be nurtured, a means of expression, an example to be set.
The 22-year-old bassist joined in 2019, replacing Amelia Murray who departed on good terms to focus on her medical degree . A “one in a million” addition according to Harper, Lane was then in her first year of university, lamenting on her phone call home to her parents each week that she hadn’t yet joined a band. Offered a share of Spacey Jane’s then going gig rate, $48 and 12 cans of beer, she happily accepted.
“We’re always looking to expand and evolve and bring in as many positive influences and opinions to this thing as possible, without giving away our sense of agency,” Harper says. “Prior to the last six months I felt very possessive and vulnerable, but I want it to be a fun, collaborative thing, not a gut-wrenching introspective process.”Whether allied to cathartic backbeat or bittersweet balladry, Caleb Harper’s lyrics have struck a chord with the band’s fans.
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