Inspired by the many threads running across different sonic pockets from our city and surrounds. Your curators for the night, Daily Toll, scorn the sydney-clique mentality by curating diverse musical expressions, across genre, meaning and message, to see what can be struck like a match, what can be felt and fostered from between the scenes.
Hubcaps & Lewis Lockwood Mosley
Comprised of Gadigal based musicians Hubcaps and Lewis Lockwood Mosley, the duo creates a music situated somewhere between song, drone, and noise. Drawing on their own musical practices as well as a wide range of individual and shared influences, their first performance was as part of the Blue Day Festival at Lazy Thinking in December of 2024. Hubcaps & Lewis Lockwood Mosley are excited to return to Lazy Thinking for Between the Scenes.
Hamed Sadeghi
Hamed Sadeghi is an Iranian-born tar player and composer based on Gadigal land (Sydney). Trained as a Persian classical musician in Tehran, Hamed’s haunting compositions give you a taste of his cherished culture.
He has performed at the most notable music festivals and in prestigious concert halls in Australia and around the world. He has toured nationally and internationally with his band Eishan Ensemble, the improvisation trio Vazesh and with Persian maestro Shahram Nazeri amongst others.
He has been scoring music for multiple theatre and dance productions including Sami in Paradise Belvoir 2018, Stop Girl Belvoir 2021, The Boomkak Panto Belvoir 2021, Cloe Fournier’s Tout Ce Sa at Sydney Dance Company, English Melbourne Theatre Company and William Zappa’s The Iliad at Sydney Festival, Adelaide Festival and Fourwinds festival.
As a composer Sadeghi has released 6 albums to critical acclaim and has earned recognition through nominations for ARIA Awards 2021 for best world music album and best jazz album He has been a finalist at APRA Art Music Awards and has been nominated for best original score of mainstage production at Sydney Theatre Awards.
Daily Toll
Gadigal/Sydney locals Daily Toll bring a unique charm to the stages and bills they play; working through the weight of the world with honest songwriting and a reluctance to be solely defined by one sound, instead honouring each song as its own mutable story or opportunity for experimentation; drawn to layers of textural, melodic and relatively simplistic instrumentation paired with a poetic, unfettered love of words; daily toll carves out a world of their own.
Photogenic
Smile bitch: it's PHOTOGENIC!
As far back as 2017, PHOTOGENIC were delivering on the great DIY promise that forming a band is as easy as throwing five friends in a room and seeing what sticks. The result was (and is!) a meeting of punk descriptors from proto-to-post, where scrappy, dissonant guitars meet thuggish basslines and pogo beats, where eerie solos accompany threatening lyrical turns like: "you're nothing but shit on my shoe, now you're caught between my toes: it's disgusting.”
Solo Career
Solo Career is a bedroom pop side hustle that has matured into home studio pop in recent years. A party bag of styles seesawing between electro jangle and shameless heartache bops / moping set to a beat, with the occasional guitar solo thrown in, of course.
Elmo Aoyama
Elmo Aoyama is an artist curiously exploring the relationship between space, memory and time. Born in Tokyo and based in Sydney, Elmo works within the realms of music, architecture and industrial design. Following a recent residency and run of shows in Mexico and LA in 2024, this marks Elmo’s first Sydney show in a year - and likely the only Sydney appearance for 2025.