The Pleasures at The Oaks Hotel

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Catherine and Lachlan’s have vastly different musical backstories. Country-loving parents steered Catherine towards Hank Williams and Jimmie Rogers, and by the time she was 16 the twang of her debut record had reached the ears of Sir Elton John. The rock legend not only decided to record a duet with the young singer, but also introduced her to RCA Records in Nashville, to whom she was immediately signed. Over the next decade she toured America and the world with the likes of Chris Isaak, Dolly Parton, Brooks and Dunn, Alan Jackson and Kenny Chesney and won the CMA International Artist of the Year Award, before returning to Australia where she not only got married and had children, but also fought and defeated breast cancer.

Meanwhile Lachlan, who grew up amongst ballet dancers, orchestra conductors and maths teachers, was forging a respected career on the sticky carpets of the Melbourne rock’n’roll and alt-country scenes, earning a reputation as a songwriter’s-songwriter and witty storyteller with his band of misfits The Wildes. He and the band began to make international dive-bar tours – mostly in the UK and USA – and it was on one such escapade that Lachlan met Catherine (in Austin, Texas, no -less) and a drunken, debaucherous night spawned a now decade-long friendship of sibling-like proportions.