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Artist
Hot Spoke
10+ albums
popindieaustraliafemale vocalistindie folk
about
Hot Spoke is a project of Sydney-based songwriter Vanessa Muir. The band is made up of Seb Bartels (guitar), and Tully Ryan (Drums). Hot Spoke’s smoky and enveloping sound is complimented by Vanessa’s melancholic, fragile yet brooding vocals. Inspired by the scuzzy sounds of 90s indie bands like Mazzy Star, Rilo Kiley and Jesus Mary Chain, but grounded in the classic songwriting styles of the likes of Gram Parsons and Fleetwood Mac. Originally a solo folk singer/songwriter from the Central Coast of NSW, from a young age Vanessa was taken under the wings of alt country music legends Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson. Discovered at a local cafe up the road from their family home, the two invited Vanessa around for writing and recording sessions and up on stage with them a number of times. It was from their encouragement that she was inspired to take her music further. She packed her guitar and moved to Sydney where she would later meet the musicians who would join her to form Hot Spoke. As a solo artist Vanessa toured with Lisa Mitchell, wrote with Toby Martin (Youth Group), Adrian Deutsch (Red Riders) and Josh Pyke, and travelled to the U.S where she wrote songs with; Mike Daley (Whiskeytown) and Lee Alexander (Norah Jones). Her original song 'My My' was handpicked as the in-flight theme song for Qantas in 2010. It was soon after this though that Vanessa felt her songwriting and musical tastes had outgrown the solo format. It was from this feeling of discontent that Hot Spoke
