These Idle Hands + Hillsborough + Sabrina Lawrie (Solo)

Name: These Idle Hands + Hillsborough + Sabrina Lawrie (Solo)
Start: 2025-09-14T07:00:00+10:00
Location: The Junk Bar

Schedule

Sun, 14 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 am

UTC+10:00

Location

The Junk Bar | New Farm, QL

You’re all invited to a very special afternoon/evening of Alt Folk Rock, Country/Blues, and Dark Swampy Electric Grit, as These Idle Hands join forces with Hillsborough & Sabrina Lawrie, for a show not to be missed, & the ideal way to finish off your weekend. We hope to see you there.
THESE IDLE HANDS
Gold Coast Hinterland based These Idle Hands are an elusive kind of sonic event, one whose members hail from far ranging backgrounds. Murray & Benny (Guitar/Vocals & Piano) come from combined decades working together in theatre.
Josh (Guitar/Vocals) has previous experience working with Montana based bluegrass band Babaganoush & others.
Sue (Violin) has played everything from Open-Air-Mega-Events to Unplugged-gigs on small stages, both here and in Holland, Belgium, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Germany
Craig (Bass) with local acts including hip hop outfit Soma Rasa, and was also a founding member of George.
Paul (Drums) has played with numerous bands, including everything from Sony artist Tony Lee Scott, to the heavy riff based rock of Motormoth.
These Idle Hands acoustic balladry & harrowingly intimate lyricism combine to craft often hauntingly powerful Dark folk & Americana.
Over their five years together, the band have graced numerous festivals and street events including, Ground Water Festival, Festival Of Small Halls & Higher Ground Festival, not to mention many other regional halls & popular venues.
TIH have received high praise & air play on 4ZZZ, ABC Country, BayFM, 2SER, Brooklyn Radio NYC, DriftFM (Chur), 103.3FM Asheville (US) to name just a few, for their three full length album release’s, Petrichor & Meraki, and their latest eponymously titled third album.
These Idle Hands will pull you in and hold you close like a warm, familiar embrace.
Beat Mag
These Idle Hands music, much like fine wine, to be imbibed and savoured within the shadowy twilight of self-reflection and contemplation
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HILLSBOROUGH
Since 2016, Hillsborough have been peddling their own brand of Country/Blues at bars and festivals around Australia. The culmination of years treading the boards at live music venues and festivals around the globe, the band members have had the privilege of sharing the stage with a weird and wonderful kaleidoscope of artists - from You Am I through to Tina Arena and a whole lot in between. Hillsborough released their debut single and video in February 2022 through Sydney label Heartsville Records, with the full album following on October 4th. The band toured extensively around the country on their National tour to promote the album, receiving widespread airplay including stations ABC Country, Double J, 4ZZZ, 2SER, 3RRR and PBS with appearances at Higher Ground Festival, Autumn Fall Festival and Tamworth Country Music Festival to name a few. The name Hillsborough was adopted as a tribute to a region in Western Queensland where Phil’s family have been living since the late 1800’s. Started initially as a side project to Brisbane’s Psych/Garage machine Sacred Shrines, the group has morphed from predominantly a solo project to a duo and then to a fully fledged band over the duration of recording their debut album. The group have been locked away in self imposed exile recently, working on songs for their second LP.
SABRINA LAWRIE
Has not only been involved in a string of single releases as Sabrina Lawrie, but also a host of collaboration projects, and releases over the years, ranging from the more electronic pop songs of Bast N Move, to the more recent swamp folk'n'blues of her new group LAPIS. The past 12 months have seen Sabrina in co-lab's with Dave Atkins (Resin Dogs/Wolfmother) as well as flexing her passion for other instruments, playing bass with Smoked Salmon, Kim Salmon's (The Scientists / Beasts of Bourbon) touring band, and soon to be joining a special reunion one-off show on drums with The Dubrovniks. Her solo show is a mix of dark swampy electric grit and acoustic songs from her lengthy back catalogue as well as new material with a focus on storytelling.