Australian songwriter Stella Donnelly will release her debut album 'Beware Of The Dogs' on March 8th.
The unique Australian artist returned home to focus on sessions late last year, sculpting new material after an extensive spell on the road.
Debut album 'Beware Of The Dogs' is her broadest, most ambitious project yet, and it will be followed by a UK tour.
New song 'Old Man' is online now, and while it's a breezy guitar jammer the lyrics take aim at an unsettling intrusion into her life.
Stella explains: “I came up with the chords and chorus to this song in 2017 around the time when Woody Allen called the #metoo movement a witch hunt. It was a very strange feeling for me watching the world change right before my eyes and to see that these men who had exploited their power for so long were actually being held accountable for their actions.”
“It made me look back on my experiences as a young woman doing music and certain powerful men who tried to manipulate me and exploit other young women. I needed to write this song for myself because if I hadn’t I would still feel quite angry about things that I probably let slide in my younger, more naive days.”
“I have no intentions of publicly calling out these people but it’s a nice feeling to me knowing that they may hear this song one day and feel perhaps an inch of the humiliation and powerlessness that they inflicted on me back then.”
Fiona Jane Burgess directs the video, which uses subtitles lifted from the book Every Woman’s Guide to Self Defence. Tune in now.
Catch Stella Donnelly at the following shows:
April
23 Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach
24 Bristol Thekla
25 Southampton Joiners
27 Brighton Haunt
28 Manchester YES
29 Dublin Grand Social
May
1 Glasgow Blue Arrow
2 Leeds Brudenell Social Club
4 Liverpool Sound City
5 Nottingham Bodega
7 London Scala
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