Lucky Blue was started in Fremantle, recording with Dylan Olivierre. It was a time when I had just moved from the stability and comfort of Margaret River and my life suddenly changed direction. I started rebuilding my life, recording music for the first time in a long time, working with bands such as the Divinyls and starting a band of my own. It was a really transformative time. I was by myself during the middle of Covid while still working on the songs and moved into (by myself) an amazing mid century home in Fremantle with a big garden and a studio with a blue door and horseshoe above it. It really was an omen that during the time the world stood still and even though at times I was scared and alone, that I was lucky, I still had my music. The songs and myself really transformed in that time. It was the first time I learned how to be alone and thrive in the face of adversity. After I realized the lockdowns were going to last much longer than the initial three weeks. There was a housing crisis, no rentals, no shows and I was missing the country. I had the opportunity to head back to a place I always loved and wrote songs between touring, my “happy place”. A remote location on the south coast of Australia in a town of approximately 40 people, no shops, no phone reception and scenery that puts a spell on you. Here I remembered how to have fun, the lightness of living, the reflection and nostalgia of the intense lessons I learnt in the city. The songs began to change form to compliment the landscape, as a call back to the spirit inside you that still hopes, that wants to pack up the car and go on a surf trip or to a festival. It was total freedom, in a world that wasn’t free at the time. I started working with Andy Lawson and Palle Mazzulla who brought a sunshiney - guitar driven, other worldliness to the songs. This record is how I found my sound and who I am as an artist.