Julia Henning 'Tempest' Single Launch at the Promethean

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Fri 24 Jan 2014

With its 'intimate ambience', The Promethean was the ideal venue for the official launch of the music video and feature track Tempest from Julia Henning's forthcoming debut album Fledgling.

Also performing on the night were special guests Tim Moore (accompanied by Maggie Rutjens ) and Alice Haddy .

Tempest's music video was directed and edited by Melvin J. Montalban and produced by Chloe Rickard and Dave Cain of Rickshaw Pix .

To view the music video of Tempest, click here .

To listen to Tempest and rate it on Triple J Unearthed, click here .



The set opened with Drifter, followed by December and Whispers - all tracks from the upcoming Fledgling album. Then along came In White, from the Divisions EP.

In White's moving lyrics really struck a chord with me ("you can tell by her face, she knows her mistake but she's stuck"... oh how I remember that feeling).

Julia did warn the audience that she'd be hitting some nerves (including her own). I just hadn't bargained on such articulate lyrics accompanied by a consistently mesmerising performance - Julia and her band truly had a captive audience!



The set just flowed, with Another Day, then If & Only If which was another stand out (charting at number 1 in Triple J Unearthed's 2013 charts and featuring on Season 4 of Channel Ten's Offspring).

Cold Mourning was followed by Julia's powerful version of Kate Bush's Running Up that Hill (available on Julia's Live At Sydney Opera House EP ).

The set wound up with the remaining Fledgling tracks Legacy, Three Words, Tempest and Fledgling - with Tall Trees performed as an encore and dedication to Julia's mum. Again, my thoughts and emotions were continually provoked - especially with Three Words (in true Julia Henning style, they're not the three words I expected).



If you're lucky enough to be reading this article and discovering Julia Henning, make sure you view the lyric video of The Sea (beautifully written by Julia Henning and Matthew Moore). This song was written as part of Fledgling's Pozible campaign which raised $5,000 of Fledgling's recording costs. Fledgling was recorded in Coolangatta with renowned producer Govinda Doyle who produced Angus and Julia Stone's ARIA award winning Big Jet Plane.

What intrigues me about Julia Henning is her strength and determination. Born with fibrosing alveolitis, Julia was not expected to survive. Instead, she defied the odds and from a young age, focussed on her singing and songwriting. By age13, Julia had already written and recorded her first full length album titled In The Mists of My Imagination - a steady stream of awards followed for her inspirational song writing. Now aged 23, Julia and her band are truly a force to be reckoned with!

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