MELANIE HORSNELL & STEVE APPEL - Someone Like You

July 25, 2018

Steve Appel (King Curly) and Melanie Horsnell were introduced to each other by their mutual friend, journalist and drummer Iain Shedden just last year at the Bellingen Winter Music Festival. It was a serendipitous meeting which set them on their way to sharing a European tour billed as 'Two Australian Songwriters'.  Over the course of a 6 week itinerary, playing shows almost every night through 7 countries, songs were written, harmonies honed and the reception was such that the decision was made to make a record together!  The project was started during their last days in Paris, recording demos of new songs in the Studios Quatre Chemins. Later, back at base camp in Australia, Steve steadily worked those demos adding melodic parts by musicians located between his native Hazelbrook and Melanie’s Candelo and further afield, in order to craft a record that is sweetly captivating, mesmerising for its sense of both hope and adventure.

Theirs is a musical relationship that has a certain timelessness and collaborative charm - one imagines Melanie and Steve as bards traversing Europe among the gypsies, gracing old time vaudeville halls of midwestern America, or perchance, evoking a modern Slim and Joy arrangement involving billy tea, towed caravans and bench-seated Holdens. Steve’s steady, world-weary yet carefully sanguine delivery provides complex contrast to Melanie’s ever-dewy yet steadily feminine tones. In this creative conspiracy, Horsnell’s familiar day-dreamy themes of perfect love and searching hope meet Steve’s wisened swaggery squarely in the middle, each calling each other’s bluff and therefore the audiences’, as we gently realise and make peace with our own, personal, foibled humanity.

Melanie: "I wrote this song a couple of years ago in Sarah Carroll's kitchen - it was a day when a pile of songs spontaneously arrived and it could be because her house bursts with music! Then when I met Steve and we toured the song his harmonies and groove added a nice swagger, and it became a good duet in our set. Enjoy!"

Funded by an incredibly successful and creative crowdfunding campaign, their album "The World Has A Gentle Soul" is available for preorder, with a general release date of 17th August 2018. 
The first single "Someone Like You" is out NOW!
This is an independent release on their label Good Stem Records via MGM.

Get the single here: https://melaniehorsnell.lnk.to/SomeoneLikeYou

Melanie Horsnell will also be on a solo tour through Europe:

EUROPE: Melanie Horsnell (Solo)
AUGUST
Fri 31 Aug - Peniche Anako, Paris, FRANCE

SEPTEMBER
Sat 1st Sept - Le Bar De La Plage, St Arnoult en yveline, FRANCE
Sat 8th Sept - Landcafe Kitzbichler, Caaschwitz GERMANY
Mon 10th Sept - Peter en Leni, Steendam NETHERLANDS
Sat 15th Sept -  Czech Inn, Prague CZECH REPBUBLIC
Mon 17th Sept - Concert LJUBUJANA (details soon)
Tue 25th Sept - Gutshaus, Lubeck GERMANY  
Thur 27th Sept - Pferdestall, Helmstedt, GERMANY
Sat 29th Sept - Prinz Willy, Kiel GERMANY
Sun 30th Sept - “Baby, I grew you a beard!” Songwriter Series, @Hamburgprojekt, Hamburg GERMANY