The Pleasures - Live at The Cordial Factory

Fronted by Catherine Britt and Lachlan Bryan, The Pleasures formed in 2022 and their debut record The Beginning of the End (released in August 2023) debuted at Number Two on the Official ARIA Country Charts, spent 12 weeks in the Americana Music Association Albums charts and scored the band two nominations for the 2024 Golden Guitars Australian Country Music Awards before giving a standout performance at the awards ceremony.

No shrinking violets, The Pleasures' sound is raucous, dirty and blues-inspired (occasionally interrupted by delicate moments of sublime country-folk), whilst their subject matter leaps from bold and bawdy to heartfelt and insightful. If you get the feeling these guys have drawn upon every debaucherous night out, self-inflicted wound, bleeding heart and broken bone to come up with this noise, you'd be absolutely right!

Already festival favourites, The Pleasures have delighted crowds at The Gympie Muster, Dashville Skyline, Groundwater Music Festival, Country by the River, Country by the Bay and many more. This year they have already appeared at Port Fairy Folk Festival, Tamworth Country Music Festival and Nundle Rocks as well as showcase appearances at Folk Alliance Intenational in Kansas City and later on in the year a return to the United Kingdom.