Megan Washington, that artistically gifted singer and musician, is hitting the road again to tour our regional and metropolitan stops.
It'll be an exciting time, and fans should expect a personal and reflective show that is not necessarily planned to a tee.
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"I've sort of reached the point where the band's shows are very dynamic and quite exciting and a little bit funky and I guess this tour is very spontaneous," Washington says. "I've sort of been rehearsing all my music that I know and then for the actual tour I'm going to kind of make it up as I go along because I don't have a band."
This may seem like a daunting prospect for other artists, to be laid bare on one's lonesome without the moral support of a band. Not for Washington – she'll cover every national state and territory across 26 shows, performing a full string of stripped back, intimate appearances for the first time ever, with a particular focus on visiting her fans outside of Australia's staple touring markets.
"It is just me solo, by myself, and I don't have to worry about informing other musicians of what I am going to do and that is quite liberating for me as I am just going to do what I feel like."
No doubt the tour will cover her alternative musings across two electrifying albums,
I believe You Liar and There There. Fans can also expect that sometime soon they can draw their attention to a new Megan Washington album that may just be a little less personal than her previous efforts.
"I am sort of getting ready to make something else at the moment and I think it is going to be quite different to the things I have made before and you know I feel like I have reached the fullest expression of that sort of concessional, autobiographical songwriting method."
"I couldn't really get more candid if I tried so I think I'm going to go the other way and to disappear into fantasyland and see what comes out of that - it is not going to be about me writing about my boyfriends anymore."
If it isn't about significant others, what does inspire Megan Washington and is it a painstaking process to write songs or something that comes naturally to her?
"Some songs come in a second and others in a month. My process has always come from the freedom of motion, and that is something that I'm kind of trying to move out of now I feel like I'm just not interested in that sort of music any more."
"At the moment I am quite inspired by rhythm and that is quite evocative for me. I am not only inspired by one sort of thing; it can be a congregation or a person or a sound or two words put together – it can really be anything at all."
Megan Washington
Where: The Front Gallery, Lyneham.
When: Tuesday, September 1.
How Much: Sold out