Set to tour nationally in May, folk-rock singer-songwriter Jen Cloher has shared another taste from their forthcoming album 'I Am The River, The River Is Me' – her first album in five years.
Sizzling with sass and bubbling with rock swagger, 'The Witch' is an instant ear-worm that'll become an anthem for fierce personalities everywhere.The song's music video features a top-tier cast of Naarm's finest creatives/ singer-songwriters led by Camp Cope's Georgia Maq who is joined by her coven of sisters: Mo'Ju, Alice Skye, Kira Puru and Lay the Mystic.
With 'I Am The River, The River Is Me' to drop on 3 March, Jen will headline concerts in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Anglesea (Surf Coast), Melbourne and Sydney.
"I went to a party in 2022 where a friend had hired a portable cedar spa," Cloher says, detailing the birth of 'The Witch'.
"They had set it up in the backyard and after a big feast people started to pile in. As the night progressed things became more and more debauched, bodies tangled together, laughter and booze, like a Bacchanalian scene in a forest.
"Cut to six months later when I'm trying to think of a way to tell a funny (but sexy) story to accompany 'My Witch'. I had been attending Pony Club Gym in Preston for a couple of years and I thought it would make the perfect setting for a pair of babes to be flirting during a steamy workout.
"Then to casting. . . if there's anyone who reps body positivity and owning their deep hotness it has to be Georgia Maq from Camp Cope. I had my witch slash personal trainer cast!
"The gym scene needed to be about holding back though because the suggestion of something happening is sexier. Then it came to me! The explosion the song needed during the mega raunch guitar solo could take place in a spa cauldron. Georgia would lure me to her coven where things would turn wild.
"Now to casting a coven of hot witches. Seeing as me and Georgia are songwriters and performers it made sense that her coven would be overflowing with iconic Naarm-based songwriting witches - Mo'Ju, Alice Skye, Kira Puru and Lay the Mystic all said yes to my invitation to spend an evening in a spa eating a lot of watermelon. The rest is history."
Jen Cloher 2023 Tour Dates
Wed 1 Mar - Jet Black Cat Music (Brisbane)* in-store appearance onlySat 6 May - The Rechabite (Perth)
Fri 12 May - The Gov (Adelaide)
Sat 20 May - Princess Theatre (Brisbane)
Fri 26 May - Sound Doctor (Surf Coast)
Sat 27 May - Northcote Theatre (Melbourne)
Thu 1 Jun - Venue TBA (Sydney)
