Courtney Barnett

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Courtney Barnett (2014)
Courtney Barnett (2014)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The Double EP: A Sea of ​​Split Peas
  US 165 05/10/2014 (1 week)
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
  AU 4th 
gold
gold
03/30/2015 (24 weeks)
  DE 73 04/03/2015 (1 week)
  CH 66 03/29/2015 (2 weeks)
  UK 16 
silver
silver
04/04/2015 (5 weeks)
  US 20th 04/11/2015 (5 weeks)
Lotta Sea Lice (with Kurt Vile )
  AU 5 October 29, 2017 (1 week)
  DE 75 October 20, 2017 (1 week)
  CH 35 10/22/2017 (1 week)
  UK 11 10/26/2017 (2 weeks)
  US 51 04/11/2017 (1 week)
Tell Me How You Really Feel
  AU 2 May 28, 2018 (3 weeks)
  DE 24 05/25/2018 (1 week)
  AT 44 06/01/2018 (1 week)
  CH 19th May 27, 2018 (1 week)
  UK 9 May 31, 2018 (3 weeks)
  US 22nd 02.06.2018 (1 week)

Courtney Melba Barnett (born November 3, 1988 in Sydney ) is an Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist of alternative rock .

Life

Courtney Barnett grew up in Mona Vale in the north of Sydney as the daughter of a ballet dancer and stage manager . She initially aspired to a career as a tennis player , but turned to art and music at the age of 16. She studied drawing and photography in Tasmania , but dropped out after two years. Barnett then worked as a guitarist in various bands in Melbourne . Together with her musician friend Jen Cloher, she finally founded her own indie label Milk! , based in the Moreland City neighborhood of Melbourne. The label is continuously very productive, relocating Loose Tooth , The Finks and Fraser A. Gorman with several albums each and of course the albums of the two founders, often on vinyl as well as CDs.

Barnett pioneered other Australian musicians by frequently incorporating bands she liked as opening acts on their international tours. On her indie label Milk! Records , she not only releases her own albums, but also a large number of talented newcomers and musician colleagues. She mostly does the artwork for her albums / CD covers herself anyway. Even her Twitter and Instagram postings show her consistently as an imaginative illustrator.

Courtney Barnett mentions Patti Smith and Nirvana as influences on her music . Spex magazine also compared her singing style and lyrics to Lou Reed , Bob Dylan and Lily Allen . With her EPs I've Got a Friend Called Emily Ferris and How to Carve a Carrot into a Rose , Barnett was initially successful in Australia from 2012, before finding a larger audience abroad. She has performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival , the Transmusicales Festival in Rennes and the Glastonbury Festival, among others .

On March 20, 2015, Courtney Barnett released her debut album Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit , which reached number 4 in the Australian charts and number 20 in the US charts . The album was largely positively received by the critics; the portal allmusic awarded 4.5 out of 5 stars, Pitchfork Media 8.6 out of 10 points, and the Guardian awarded the album the maximum number of five stars.

On zeit.de, Thomas Winkler praised Barnett's witty and serious approach to everyday issues, while Jan Wiele in the online edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung emphasized the successful handling of the tradition of grunge and folk . In 2016, Barnett was nominated for a Grammy in the Best New Artist category.

She regularly invites talented young musicians who have gone beyond the local level with their first albums as opening act for their intercontinental tours abroad. On June 9, 2018, she made a guest appearance with Waxahatchee at the Bataclan in Paris during her European tour . In February and the beginning of March 2019 she toured the big cities of Central and South America, in order to honor some metropolises in Japan with Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka.

Discography

Albums

  • Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (2015)
  • Tell Me How You Really Feel (2018)
  • MTV Unplugged Live In Melbourne (2020)

Collaborations

EPs

  • I've Got a Friend Called Emily Ferris (2012)
  • How to Carve a Carrot into a Rose (2013)
  • The Double EP: A Sea of ​​Split Peas (2013)

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: AU DE CH UK US
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: AU UK
  3. ↑ Reviews: Courtney Barnett, Alison Wonderland and Meg Mac , Craig Mathieson, The Sydney Morning Herald, March 20, 2015
  4. ^ A b Dorian Lynskey: Courtney Barnett: 'Every day I have some sort of breakdown' , The Guardian, March 12, 2015, accessed April 22, 2015
  5. ↑ see Discogs profile of the indie label
  6. ↑ Jacqueline Krause-Blouin: Courtney Barnett ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Spex on April 25, 2014, seen on April 22, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spex.de
  7. ↑ australian-charts.com , as viewed April 22, 2015
  8. ↑ allmusic.com , accessed April 22, 2015
  9. ^ Courtney Barnett: Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit review , The Guardian, March 17, 2015, accessed April 22, 2015
  10. ↑ Thomas Winkler: It's also Friday morning , zeit.de on March 27, 2015, seen on April 22, 2015
  11. ↑ Jan Wiele: She makes origami out of money , faz.net on March 23, 2015, seen on April 22, 2015
  12. ↑ Barnett will be on US tour with indie a-listers as support , including Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker, Waxahatchee and Vagabon , Paste Magazine, May 18, 2018, accessed October 24, 2019
  13. ^ Critique de Courtney Barnett + Waxahatchee + Loose Tooth à Bataclan, Paris , concert review (French) from June 22, 2018 on concertandco.com, accessed June 28, 2018
  14. ↑ C. Barnett South America and Mexico 2019 , instagram.com, retrieved April 8, 2019
  15. ↑ C. Barnett Japan 2019 , instagram.com, retrieved April 8, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Barnett, Courtney
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barnett, Courtney Melba
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd November 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney , Australia