Courtney Barnett announces From Where I’m Standing livestream gig


Courtney Barnett (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)

Courtney Barnett (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)




It’s the first full-band show from Courtney Barnett since January.

A year which has seen Courtney Barnett‘s live work restricted to just pre-pandemic shows at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne to raise money for the Australian bushfires and the occasional lockdown TV performance will come to a blessed end on December 17th with a livestreamed gig from the Royal Exhibition Building, back in Melbourne.

From Where I’m Standing will be streamed at convenient times for fans in more distant territories such as the UK and USA, the filming put together by director Derry Sheehan.

New material written after that incessant live work for Barnett came to a stop in 2020 is expected to be part of the show, a glimpse at what she has to offer following the 2018 release of Tell Me How You Really Feel – one of Live4ever’s top albums of that year:

“After one listen of Tell Me How You Really Feel you can almost imagine Courtney Barnett’s people hustling around you with canapes at the playback sessions, handing you a salmon terrine and then whispering conspiratorially at the same time, ‘This is her grunge album. We think she’s worked it out of her system now’,” our review opens.

“The title is an apt one for a record on which the Australian singer seems to be grafting for a handle on herself; part psychiatrist, part patient seeking a diagnosis for a condition which neither really understand”

“Barnett has spoken about the problems of overcoming writer’s block in following up 2015’s mercurial Sometimes I Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit by degrees, filleting the tough subjects she would otherwise have avoided as a route to making ideas flow. Happiness, it seems, is no-one’s real muse.”


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