Melbourne alt-country duo Miles and Simone have thoroughly charmed me with their new single “She and I.” With sublime harmonies, a sweet love story, and slide guitars, it has all the elements that make me swoon. There’s a lovely old-world charm to the song that’s also woven a spell over me.
Miles O’Neil came up with the track after spying an old beaten up nylon-stringed classic guitar amongst boxes of old records behind the red velvet stage curtain of Melbourne’s Basement Discs record store.
“While we were waiting to go onstage, I spotted a small guitar behind the boxes of records. I saw it was covered in the signatures of the many musicians who had performed on the Basement Discs stage. I tuned it up, started strumming and a song just came out, as if it was waiting behind the strings,” he explained. “I started singing “she and I would run like rolling rivers” and knew it was a keeper.”
Miles and Simone will give music lovers a sneak peek at their forthcoming EP with shows all around the country soon, including festival performances and gigs at intimate venues.
2 July 2017 – Newport Folk Festival, Newport
7 July 2017 – Festival of Voices, Hobart
8 & 9 July 2017 – Bello Winter Music, Bellingen
13 July 2017 – The Grace Darling, Melbourne
14 July 2017 – Stratherton Hall, Moira
15 July 2017 – Yarck Town Hall, Yarck
16 July 2017 – The Theatre Royal, Castlemaine
27 July 2017 – The Golden Age Cinema, Sydney
29 July 2017 – TBA, Balmoral
3 August 2017 – TBA, Nathalia
4 August 2017 – Major Tom’s, Kyneton
5 August 2017 – King Valley, King Valley
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