Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago
New album Room 822, recorded in hotel quarantine, Perth, WA. emilybarker.com/room822
‘Frogstomp’ was a huge album in Australia, but also made waves beyond home turf. I was 14 when it came out, Lukas was just 10 (he’ll be happy I point out our age difference here). My best friend, Andrea, was a grunge girl back in those days and had a huge celeb crush on Daniel Johns - we listened to the album a lot as teenagers, moshing about our bedrooms with posters of Johns on her walls. On the other side of the world, Lukas discovered the record a few years later when he was 13 years old. At this time in his life, he and his family were living in a homeless hostel in Cornwall, UK. He was skating and listening to angry music like Silverchair and Nirvana as a means of escape. When we first talked about doing this covers album, it was the first Aussie band he suggested. We listened to the record together the day after our arrival at The Westin Hotel in Perth for our two week quarantine. It was the first song we recorded and it felt good to perform it after a long haul flight – the musical equivalent of running around a park. It brought back a lot of memories for us both: good and not so good. We really pumped out the vocals – apologies to our quarantine neighbours.
Credits:
King - Lukas Drinkwater
Queen - Emily Barker
King's servant - Timon Barker-Rose
Queen's servant - Jeeko Barker-Rose
Camera operator - Buckeley Barker-Rose
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Emily Barker's new album "A Dark Murmuration of Words" is out now - https://smarturl.it/eb-words
"an album of spare, striking beauty" Mojo ★★★★
"irresistibly catchy...an album replete with nooks and crannies, light and shade" The Australian ★★★★★
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New album Room 822, recorded in hotel quarantine, Perth, WA. emilybarker.com/room822
‘Frogstomp’ was a huge album in Australia, but also made waves beyond home turf. I was 14 when it came out, Lukas was just 10 (he’ll be happy I point out our age difference here). My best friend, Andrea, was a grunge girl back in those days and had a huge celeb crush on Daniel Johns - we listened to the album a lot as teenagers, moshing about our bedrooms with posters of Johns on her walls. On the other side of the world, Lukas discovered the record a few years later when he was 13 years old. At this time in his life, he and his family were living in a homeless hostel in Cornwall, UK. He was skating and listening to angry music like Silverchair and Nirvana as a means of escape. When we first talked about doing this covers album, it was the first Aussie band he suggested. We listened to the record together the day after our arrival at The Westin Hotel in Perth for our two week quarantine. It was the first song we recorded and it felt good to perform it after a long haul flight – the musical equivalent of running around a park. It brought back a lot of memories for us both: good and not so good. We really pumped out the vocals – apologies to our quarantine neighbours.
Credits:
King - Lukas Drinkwater
Queen - Emily Barker
King's servant - Timon Barker-Rose
Queen's servant - Jeeko Barker-Rose
Camera operator - Buckeley Barker-Rose
=========================================
Emily Barker's new album "A Dark Murmuration of Words" is out now - https://smarturl.it/eb-words
"an album of spare, striking beauty" Mojo ★★★★
"irresistibly catchy...an album replete with nooks and crannies, light and shade" The Australian ★★★★★
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