"All the girls would say, 'I want to be a singer', and I thought, 'Well, I'm not going to be like everybody else so I'm going to pick something really weird even though I wanted to be a singer'," Manfredi declares in excitable tone. "I'd say 'I want to be a marine biologist or a teacher' and at one point I wanted to be an ice-skater."

Thankfully Manfredi resisted the urge to be a darling of ice-skating, and instead befriended her now Preatures' bandmates at the Australian Institute of Music. From here, she began to metamorphise into a striking rock'n'roll lead singer proving her Italian teacher was right all along!

"I was kidding myself for a really long time including when I was teenager and I had this Italian teacher that would say to me: 'You've got to get active in music as you are such a drama queen and you'd be perfect for it,'" Manfredi says. "It kept me from pursuing the career for a really long time, and it wasn't until my late teens when I hit rock bottom at university and pulled myself out of it that I thought, 'what do I really want to do?' And I really wanted to do music."

Since that decision, her newly formed band the Preatures have hardly stopped for a breath and the release of their debut album Blue Planet Eyes debuted at No. 4 on the ARIA Album Chart.

2015 began with a killer set at Triple J's Beat The Drum party in Sydney. Shortly afterwards, an extensive world tour to more than a dozen countries including the United States, Britain, France, Germany and Sweden cemented the Preatures' reputation as one of the most exhilarating and mesmerising live bands on the circuit. It was certainly much to be excited about, but the band isn't letting it go to their heads as there is longevity in the music industry to think about.

"We've kind of been thinking what is going to happen next, and the few times I've stepped back and looked at what we've really done I'm very proud of us and very happy."

"But with the business we're in you never know where you are going to be, so there is no security there and you can't afford to rest on your laurels."

There isn't any rest for these wicked Preatures who are already busy on album No. 2 and a series of shows that will be the last to support Blue Planet Eyes.

"We've got lots of ideas for the new album and we want to take a lot of risks on this album without destroying what makes us great as we just write pop rock."

"Basically nothing needs to get too convoluted or too clever as there is just something simple about what we do and that is what I guess people love about the band."

Where: ANU Bar

When: Thursday, August 27

Tickets: $42.31 from ticketek.com.au