Li Li Kite will be finishing their Sunday residency at The Bearded Lady this weekend.
Rumoured to be inviting a horn section to the usual three-piece line-up, you can farewell Li Li’s intricate hard-folk melodies with able support from space pop experts, Mega Ogre. Li Li shares her favourite places to write music.
1. Stairwells of apartment blocks
The acoustics are amazing! There's a sense that you're alone but there's often an interesting and fleeting interaction with one of the residents where you change each other’s days a little.
2. In Uki in my lounge room
Where I'm living northern NSW the house is really just a big open space, a concrete floor painted red and chipped and worn; there's a pot belly fireplace and cosy rugs, glass of red wine or a cup of tea, guitar and a notebook — perfect.
3. In transit
Train trips, bus trips, aeroplanes, you just get to sit back and watch and there is so much fabulous moving stimulus: people in their own worlds yet together, life wizzing by as the sun goes down over the city, or a couple of hundred strangers flying over a mountain range together.
4. Anywhere if I’m alone
I can be quite private in the writing stages of a song and having the freedom to sound messy and really just explore lyrically and vocally is a huge luxury and allows for songs to have that freedom and honesty inside them.
5. New cities
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Li Li Kite finishes her residency at The Bearded Lady this Sunday, April 13. Her special guests are Mega Ogre.
