DEAR SEATTLE

So tonight we played Seattle, Washington.

We started this band in 2013 with dreams of maybe playing a show outside of our home state of NSW. Here we are 12 years later, 7 weeks in to a 10 week tour of North America, having extensively toured all of Australia and done our first tour of Europe and the UK in November last year.

While Seattle is no more important of a city than any other, to us it feels like a significant and momentous occasion, because it’s a signifier of achieving something so far beyond our initial expectations.

We’ve been asked many times on this tour “Why Seattle?”, a completely valid question for 4 guys from Sydney, Australia, so here is the answer…

As a kid, I (Brae) lived in Seattle for a brief period due to my Dad’s work. I have a tonne of amazing memories of family camping trips, soccer games and white christmases with my mum, dad and brother Kyle. In many respects, it was the perfect childhood. In September 2001, my Dad went for a surf one Sunday morning in San Francisco and never returned. We were living in the US as a provision of Dad’s greencard, and so were given two weeks to pack up our lives and leave the country. And so we returned to Australia.

Dear Seattle is an ode to the time before I lost my dad. To the blissful innocence and unbridled joy of childhood, before life made me grow up fast.

In 24 years, I haven’t had the chance to come back to Seattle, despite always wanting to, and it is utterly surreal to me that music is what brought me back here. Music has always been my coping mechanism, my journal to vent my thoughts and feelings, and ultimately my remedy to the loss of my Dad all those years ago. It’s weird how things come full circle sometimes.

I keep dreaming, and I keep surprising myself every time the dreams come true. Tonight we get to experience yet another.

Thank you to everyone who helped get us here. We can feel you with us.

All the love, always
Dear Seattle