The Sound Doctor is back this Spring

The Sound Doctor is welcoming back the warmer weather with gigs by Australian indie-pop musician Ben Lee supported by local up-and-coming Jan Juc artist Jasmin Adria, as well as Australian indie-folk delights Maple Glider and Ruby Gill.

The weekend will kick off on September 30, with an intimate solo show by Lee, writer of hits including “Catch My Disease”, “We’re All in This Together” and “Cigarettes Will Kill You'”.

Lee will also be performing songs from his latest album I’m Fun.

Adria said she was delighted to be asked to be a support act for Lee and thrilled to be playing at The Sound Doctor.

“I’m so excited to play,” she said.

“I’ve gone to watch a lot of gigs there and I’ve followed their page for a long time… so it was really such an exciting thing to be offered to play there.

“And to support Ben, it is really so cool that The Sound Doctor would ask me to play; he’s such an incredible writer and musician.”

Adria started playing guitar when she was eight years old and started singing at 11.

She said she had been captivated by music ever since, gravitating from classics by The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Joni Mitchell to indie folk such as Sarah Blasko, Angie McMahon and Courtney Barnett.

“I started gigging around Torquay and Geelong when I was about 14, or 13, and just slowly from there building up experience with performing and playing at different places.

“I’ve just turned 18, and I’m hoping to release an EP soon, it’s hard when juggling Year 12. I just keep writing, keep playing; my recently release to triple j unearthed high had a little bit of attention”

Her latest release, Brown Skies, was recorded by Laura Hancock and produced by Jono Steer (Ainslie Wills, Gretta Ray, Angie McMahon), and is just the beginning for the up-and-coming artist.

On October 1, indie-folk Maple Glider and Ruby Gill will keep the show going.

Maple Glider will perform songs from debut album To Enjoy Is the Only Thing and Ruby Gill touring her debut record I’m Gonna Die With This Frown On My Face.

Maple Glider is the project of solo artist Tori Zietsch, and her Anglesea set promises to be humorous and warm with an acoustic-tinged, ethereal sound and honest lyricism.

Born in Joburg, Gill is well-acquainted with Sound Doctor audiences, who fell in love with her powerful lyrics and quirky style when she supported Didirri in 2019.

Gill said she would always remember the visit for a number of unusual reasons.

“It was the first drive I’d done after getting my Victorian licence, transferring it from a South African one, so it was the first drive I’d done without a licensed driver sitting in the passenger seat.

“I love that stretch of coastline, it was one of the first places I explored outside of the city, I was very much an adult, but it still feels like a part of me grew up there, a very formative place for me.”

To buy tickets or find out more, head to thesounddoctor.info.