With hook laden twang and rock n roll swagger, Melbourne based alt-country darlings Hana & Jessie-Lee’s Bad Habits are coming to the Taproom!
The combination of Hana’s searing, sophisticated and dexterous vocals and Jessie-Lee’s reverb-drenched notes and twangy solos have seen them, in recent years, take on Tamworth Country Music Festival, WOMADelaide, Out On The Weekend, Brunswick Music Festival, Dashville Skyline, Queenscliff Music Festival & Gympie Muster, relentlessly road testing and refining their live sound alongside their rhythm section of some of Melbourne’s finest musicians in Kate Alexander and Patrick Wilson.
Their highly anticipated second album ‘Say What You Mean’ (winner of Best Country Work at the 2024 Music Victoria Awards) grips from the first note, depicting everything from problematic relationships, insomnia, love, and missing home. Nothing is off limits when Jessie-Lee’s signature green Gretsch launches into one of her unmistakable ear-worm guitar lines that shimmers and jangles, only to be met with Hana’s brassy vocals that are equal parts ache, blues and crackle; creating something that is nothing short of magnetic. The long and short of it? Hana and Jessie-Lee’s Bad Habits are one for the ages. You’d better be in front of that stage!
Killer supports for this show will be our own local heroes, Central Victorian sisters of shred, Paddock Bomb, in a rare local show. Blending rock and roll, the energy of a John Deere ride on mower that’s just been serviced and the sultry smell of 2-stroke, Paddock Bomb are Castlemaine’s finest export. Having performed recently with the likes of the Black Sorrows, Party Pest and the Peep Tempel, the sisters of shred are thrilled to be supporting their dear mates Hana And Jessie Lee’s Bad Habits at the Taproom and Shiraz Republic.
Start your engines, let’s fang it.
