The Pleasures
The Pleasures are a band fronted by Catherine Britt and Lachlan Bryan, with Brad Bergen and Damian Cafarella on drums and bass respectively. Formed in 2022, their first three singles received heavy rotation on local and national radio, and their debut record The Beginning of the End (released in August 2023) debuted at #2 on the Official ARIA Country Charts, spent 12 weeks in the Americana Music Association Albums charts and scored the band two nominations for the 2024 Golden Guitars Australian Country Music Awards before giving a standout performance at the awards ceremony!
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Biography
No shrinking violets, The Pleasures' sound is raucous, dirty and blues-inspired (occasionally interrupted by delicate moments of sublime country-folk), whilst their subject matter leaps from bold and bawdy to heartfelt and insightful. They call themselves a country band, but there’s as much Jack White influence here as there is George Jones (in fact there’s plenty of both), alongside the plethora of mythologised girl-boy country acts with whom they will inevitably draw comparison. If you get the feeling these guys have drawn upon every debaucherous night out, self-inflicted wound, bleeding heart and broken bone to come up with this noise, you'd be absolutely right.
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Already festival favourites in their home country, The Pleasures have delighted crowds at Port Fairy Folk Festival, The Gympie Muster, Out On The Weekend, Dashville Skyline, Folk Alliance International, Songmasters of the Universe, Groundwater Music Festival, Country by the River, Country by the Bay, Nundle Rocks and more. This year the band heads to Europe and The UK for a headline tour, including performances at Shrewsbury Folk Festival and Maverick Festival.
Press Quotes
"Catherine Britt and Lachlan Bryan have so many awards and nominations between them that you’d be reading for a while if they were listed, but suffice to say they are two of the most eminent singer-songwriters in Australian music and luckily for us they decided to work together as The Pleasures"
- Sophie Hamley, sunburntcountrymusic.com
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"Each song is most definitely a performance in itself with Britt and Bryan duetting well together and creating musical-theatre-like imagery"
- Americana UK