The lights dim. The audience falls quiet. The band starts a smoothe
jazzesque intro while the spot falls on the gorgeous blonde a little left of
centre stage. Meanwhile at the other end of town a dance club is jumping to the
almost-jungle beat of a brand new tune that the crowd is yet to learn was
created in Melbourne's working-class inner-west.
Both audiences are getting into the sounds of "vocalist,
songwriter, cool chick" Nicholece
K Garner; a talented musician whose work is just as comfortable in
the smoky bar-rooms, ecky-fueled dance-raves or acoustic folk-venues, and whose
primary stock in trade, her voice, is a happy mix of Chrissie (The Divinyls)
Amphlet and Kate
Ceberano.
Nicholece's newest work is The
"Firecracker" EP, a culmination of months of work most any artist
would be familiar with, but none more than Ms Garner. From the electronic
pop/funk ode to the roadside local-council sign-twister with unbelievable
production effects, to the slowish yet slinky jazz-oriented closer, Nicholece shows a small sample of
where she's at during this last year of the millennium. While Never Enough,
a quasi How Bizarre with Chris Isaak low-down
guitar-work would be addable as a single at either TripleJ or Austereo (2Day, B104, Fox, etc), either Hasty
Boy or Judas Kiss would be picked up by the easier adult-oriented
stations.
The "Firecracker" EP from Nicholece K Garner
- a small and colourful display of thee array of talent brewing in this
"funky bubbling melting pot"