Quality Used Cars launch their album Quality of Life at the Brunswick Ballroom on Friday 25th August with special guests Eaten By Dogs, Michael Beach and Back Pocket.
Francis Tait has quietly established himself as one of Melbourne’s most uncanny songwriters.
He’s also one of the city’s most willing music chameleons, having navigated everything from jazz to blues, surf rock and psychedelic expanses across the years. Quality Used Cars, however, are perhaps his most inspired.
Quality Used Cars are as personable as its name – a band filling you with warmth from the first chord, one that pairs Tait’s conversational drawl with steady country musicality. Yet, the lyricism is the most arresting part of the QUC vehicle – monologues that provide snapshots of the everyday with a joyful irony not often captured in contemporary music.
Quality Used Cars
- 6:30 pm, Fri 25 August 2023
- Brunswick Ballroom
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Following their head-turning, stand out performance at Boogie 15 in April 2022, their first interstate tour and developing a reliable, dedicated fan base, The Cars dropped the joyously evocative, narrative-driven Me and Damon Drinking Beers at the Grandview Hotel and the more subtle, introspective second cut I’ve Never Felt More Alive.
August 4th, 2023 will see Quality Used Cars release their anticipated second album Quality of Life, an exploration into optimism, change and self-acceptance. Francis elaborates, “I felt like Good Days/Bad Days got a little bit sad and in my own head, so I tried to practice a little more optimism when writing this new album. The whole album spirals around the idea of finding yourself in the world and being content with where and who you are, and I think succeeds in not being quite as sad as the last one, mostly.”
Give this a spin: Quality Used Cars’ Good Days/Bad Days was one of the best local albums of 2021.
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