Acclaimed Australian singer-songwriter Fanny Lumsden returns with her first new music since 2023’s ARIA, AIR and Golden Guitar Award-winning album, ‘Hey Dawn', unveiling an unexpected and totally glorious new single courtesy of her version of Gotye’s global hit, ‘Somebody That I Used To Know', (featuring Kimbra).
The song features Fanny’s full live band, The Prawn Stars – for the first time on a recording – and was produced by Matt Fell, Dan Freeman and Fanny, mixed by Matt Fell and mastered by William Bowden (who mastered the original Gotye version).
Fanny explains the inspiration behind the single, saying, “After doing our own version of “Somebody That I Used To Know” on ABC’s Spicks and Specks last year, we started adding it to our live show, and have loved playing around with it so much that we thought it about time we recorded it! It's the first song that has my whole live touring band on it, and it makes me so happy that each of these people I spend so much time with on the road, brought a little of themselves to the song. We also wanted to feature the harmonies, which are a big thing for us live.”
The accompanying video featuring Fanny and her band The Prawn Stars, was shot in the Upper Murray region of Australia, and directed and produced by Fanny and Dan Stanley Freeman. Fanny says, “We got the band up early when they were down to play the Man From Snowy River Festival and went up on top on the hill and shot it in 1.5 hours!”
Fanny is back in the UK and Ireland for 21 shows – her fourth time in 2 years following a triumphant Glastonbury debut in 2023. After selling out her Country Halls Tour in Scotland in 2024, marking the Tour’s overseas debut, Fanny and band The Prawn Stars will also bring the intimate series of shows back here again this year, putting on full band, full production shows of original live music in halls off the regular touring circuit and raising funds for communities in the process. At the end of August, she hits the road with Paul Kelly and Lucinda Williams in Australia.
In the midst of all of this, Fanny and band are currently working on new music, set for release later this year.
See Fanny on tour at the following dates:
- Thurs Aug 7 Coughlans, Cork, Ireland
- Fri Aug 8 Dolans, Limerick, Ireland
- Sat Aug 9 Róisín Dubh, Galway, Ireland
- Sun Aug 10 Whelans, Dublin, Ireland
- Tues Aug 12 YES (PINK ROOM), Manchester
- Wed Aug 13 Oslo, London
- Thurs Aug 14 The Exchange, Bristol
- Fri Aug 15 Beautiful Days Festival, Devon
- Sat Aug 16 Country Calling Festival, Essex
- Sun Aug 17 Komedia Studio, Brighton
- Wed Aug 20 Vinyl Café, York (acoustic show)
- Thurs Aug 21 Solfest, Cumbria
- Fri Aug 22 Greenbelt Festival, Kettering
- Sat Aug 23 The Long Road Festival, Lutterworth
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