Those clear-eyed lyrics were doused in the sunny guitars and catchy choruses that see every Spacey Jane show resemble an especially enthusiastic prayer service, where everyone is reciting every line, word-perfect, with religious devotion. Released in June 2020, Sunlight chronicled Harper’s experiences with mental illness and finding steady footing in relationships and the world. 2 on the charts and were suddenly selling out the Sidney Myer Music Bowl and the Enmore Theatre six times over. When they returned to those cities a year later, after lockdowns and border closures, they had an debut album, Sunlight, that would reach No.
Their 2019 national tour took them to Melbourne’s Curtin Bandroom and the Lansdowne in Sydney – venues that could fit around 300 punters. “So by the time we did that, we were really ready.”
“We had the chance to cut our teeth for a few years before we could even afford to play shows over east,” Hardman-Le Cornu adds. Or, as Lama puts it, “Perth affords you the opportunity to be shit and get good”. Rather than limiting them, the West Australian music scene was a supportive enclave for Spacey Jane in their early years, granting them the chance to become gig-fit before venturing further afield. (Murray stepped away from the band to study medicine and, according to Lama, is just a few months from “being a fully fledged doctor”.) Their guitarist, Ashton Hardman-Le Cornu, joined later and in 2019, Peppa Lane – who describes herself as having been “a bit of a fan” of the band’s early work – replaced the outgoing bassist, Amelia Murray, completing the now tight-knit unit. “I was a very lost kid and didn’t have any focus or drive to do anything.” “I would credit the band – both the music and the people – with giving me something to be passionate about,” Harper says. When he and his school friend Kieran Lama, who is both the band’s drummer and manager, got together to form Spacey Jane, it was a coincidental moment that ended up being a way out. The song is like stepping into a time warp, he says: “That’s a picture of what I was when I was 18, 19: a sort of chameleon-like person trying desperately to find community, and riddled with mental health things and drinking … I was in and out for a while.” Perth affords you the opportunity to be shit and get good “Another wasted day / Sleeping off the hunger pains / Saying you’re ok … Getting fucked up and kicked out,” Harper sings on Not What You Paid For from Spacey Jane’s upcoming second album, Here Comes Everybody. He floundered at uni and lost touch with music and his parents. As a depressed teenager, he had built up impenetrable defence mechanisms a craving for approval left him with an identity crisis.
When the band started, Harper was failing out of university, where he was studying chemical engineering and finance.
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Since the band formed six years ago, they have put out a string of buzzy releases including Good For You, Skin and Lots of Nothing, which landed at No 3 in Triple J’s 2021 Hottest 100 poll. The West Australian band has quickly gone from relative obscurity to one of the country’s most in-demand acts, with national tours and international interest coming thick and fast. The music video for Spacey Jane’s song Hardlight off the new album Here Comes Everybody.
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