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BIG IN BRUNY

After putting out her full-length debut, Not All Bad Or Good, in May 2020, folk-punk luminary Maddy Jane was in dire need of mellowing out. Her sudden rise to stardom clashed with the pressures of a debut album, and it sure didn’t help that Not All Bad Or Good landed in the midst of the most chaotic time in recent history. So Jane ditched the mainland and headed back home to Bruny Island, a coastal small-town paradise just off the south-eastern coast of Tasmania – an island, off an island, off an island. A good place to escape the malaise of city living, for sure.

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