Sarah Mary Chadwick Lyrics

After moving to Australia from her native New Zealand to pursue a career in music, Sarah Mary Chadwick spent a decade fronting the grunge band Batrider. Eventually becoming tired of the collaborative requirements intrinsic to band life, Sarah shifted her focus to songwriting independently, drawing inspiration from "weird old New Zealand musicians" like Peter Jefferies, Chris Knox, and Australia’s Pip Proud and the way they tinker away and work for decades for "little to no commercial success." This inspiration is obvious in Sarah’s performance as she simultaneously savors and mocks the pedestal that her creativity affords her, acknowledging that "it’s a position of power being on a microphone" and how &q... read more