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Once upon a time a Canadian-born singer-songwriter named Tracy McNeil packed her possessions and headed for Melbourne. That was back in 2007, and ten years later she has made a second home; first of all as one-half of Fireside Bellows, and then with her band The GoodLife. Thieves is their latest, described by Rolling Stone Australia as “a technicolour West Coast dreamscape”. Martians Café, Deans Marsh – October 1.
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