Road to the Bottle with COURTNEY BARNETT

rough trade east

sebright arms

London Pub

the light blew in our London apartment

made it to Chicago

Paris to London train

Courtney Barnett and her band, The Courtney Barnetts, have had an exceptionally long road to the bottle. They come to us all the way from Melbourne, Australia. But lately they’ve been hanging around London and Paris where they had a handful of performances over the past week or so.Check em out below![Rough Trade in-store, London. View from the stage][Sebright Arms]Courtney and her music often get the “slacker” label tossed on them - guess that's what you get for writing honest, relatable lyrics these days. She’s been collecting a lot of fans recently, regardless of what the press decides to call her. People are joining Team Courtney in droves. Trust us, tickets for this show sold faster than Australian hotcakes.[A Pub, somewhere]Despite comparisons to early Dylan, Stephen Malkmus, Kurt Vile, and Eleanor Friedberger, Courtney manages to be herself. Not many artists these days garner as much attention for the release of a double EP, or have the audacity to pull off the line “I don’t need no 9 to 5/telling me that I’m alive” without sounding like a total cheese ball. Courtney does incredibly well, though. She can also create makeshift lighting in a pinch on tour.It’s well deserved love. Courtney does the amazing trick of making her well-crafted songs seem like off the cuff, unraveling confessions from a dear friend. Plus, this girl crams as many clever lines into a song as Kanye West. Speaking of Courtney Barnett and Kanye West, we’ll leave this here:So sure, they've had a pretty damn long road to the Bottle, as you can see, but they've arrived in Chicago and are integrating well into the local culture. Here Bones (Bass) shovels snow. Welcome!See you, Tuesday, snugglebugs.