In the sixth episode of UNPACKED, Alice Skye dives into her track ‘Grand Ideas’ and chats with Tess Guthrie about her collaboration with Jen Cloher and the evolution of different demos into the final track. She also discusses the relationship between personal processes and the emergence of a song and the importance of representing diverse perspectives across different areas of the music industry and up through chains of power, not just on stage. 

The Naarm-based Wergaia/Wemba Wemba songwriter has been steadily gaining a reputation as one of Australia’s most exciting new talents since releasing her debut single “You Are The Mountains” in 2015, followed with the release of her acclaimed debut album Friends With Feelings, which gained immediate playlisting on many of the country’s radio stations and has since accumulated over one million streams on Spotify.

Alice took home the Emerging Artist Award at the 2019 Australian Women in Music Awards and in March 2018 she was awarded the inaugural First Peoples Emerging Artist Award. She was selected by Triple J as their featured artist for the 2019 Naidoc Week and was a finalist in the 2019 NIMA Awards.

To listen to more of Alice Skye’s work and find out more about her shows you can visit her instagram @aliceskye