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TWENTY years ago, Melbourne’s pop indie darling Clare Bowditch surprised her own parents by scooping the ARIA for Best Female Artist with her breakthrough album What Was Left.<\/p>\n

Recorded in a cobbled back shed with her then boyfriend, producer and drummer, and now husband, Marty Brown, a year after they had their first child, the album was profoundly intimate, and in equal measure, cheeky, rebellious, and heartbreaking.<\/p>\n

Bowditch is excited by the tour to celebrate the anniversary.<\/p>\n

“It was the album that brought us to the Australian people and let us find our audience,” she said.<\/p>\n

“It was a surprise for us to write this little homespun album in a shed about grief and love, and then to win an ARIA.<\/p>\n

“My manager and family were like ‘It’s great to be nominated’ but winning that sort of stuff didn’t happen to people like us.<\/p>\n

“We didn’t have radio play, but it was this beautiful creeper album, and people seem to treasure it still.”<\/p>\n

In a 20-year career as an artist and storyteller, actor, broadcaster, community advocate and author, Bowditch reckons she was mostly ‘just raising kids and pets and trying not to f*** it up’.<\/p>\n

Now reworking her breakout album and armed with a swag of new material, she is preparing to re-enter the fly zone.<\/p>\n

“It’s long overdue. I never stopped writing songs. I’ve written hundreds of songs over the last decade, but I haven’t released any,” Bowditch said.<\/p>\n

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A new lease on a drawer full of songs, Bowditch is back on the road. Photo: FELIX OLIVER<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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“I love the process of writing, but each time we came to getting a collection of songs together and recording it, I just wasn’t ready to start putting stuff out in the world again.<\/p>\n

“But these shows are an extended date night, really,” the artist said.<\/p>\n

“I’ll be with Marty, my producer and long-term band mate, who happens to be the father of our three children.<\/p>\n

“Our eldest is 22 now, they’ve grown up, and it’s amazing to hit the road again.”<\/p>\n

The singer-songwriter agrees that a certain amount of retrospective wisdom comes with reworking older songs.<\/p>\n

“Very few last the test of time, but there are a couple that have stuck with me,” she said.<\/p>\n

“The songs are buddies, and songwriting is a relationship that you either foster, or you don’t, and sometimes, like life, it’s just swings and roundabouts.”<\/p>\n

Bowditch plays the Citadel in Murwillumbah on September 26.<\/p>\n

For tickets, visit events.humanitix.com\/clare-bowditch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TWENTY years ago, Melbourne’s pop indie darling Clare Bowditch surprised her own parents by scooping the ARIA for Best Female Artist with her breakthrough album What Was Left. Recorded in a cobbled back shed with her then boyfriend, producer and drummer, and now husband, Marty Brown, a year after they had their first child, the […]<\/p>\n

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