Like Courtney Barnett – a fellow Taswegian – Maddy’s songs are perceptive, observational, and preoccupied with the social interactions we unconsciously engage in each day. “I dunno about you but I see the same people every day,” she sings on ‘No Other Way’, the opening track of Not Human At All. “And the only thing that’s not the same/Is that they’re dressed in a different way.”

“People are super inspiring,” Maddy says, “human interactions, the way we interact, the way we can’t really see what’s going on in front of us until after.”

Other inspirations: the classic Aussie artist of her youth (Missy Higgins, Little Birdy, Paul Kelly, and Cold Chisel) and the hard-touring Hobart-based four-piece Luca Brasi.

Maddy had watched from the sidelines as they exported their emotive brand of punk rock from their home base of Hobart to the Mainland (and beyond), and was invited to support them on a national run of shows in June 2017.

“Those guys are super inspirational because they’ve managed to stay in Tasmania and be able to export themselves around the country,” she says. “They’ve got a really good following. There’s a lot of quality of musicians in Tasmania that are doing really well. It’s just about getting out and getting the exposure.”

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