The Feast - August 18th 2026 - Hosted by Celeste
Featuring a playlist of all new Australian musical releases from the last month. 

Playlist: 
Cycle (feat. Will Champlin) by Paul Frazer Clarke
You & Me by Stefan
Real Life by Shluffy
AAAH! by Odette
I'm Not Going Back by Daisy Spratt
Neon Loights (feat. Ander Kimnnara) by Jordan Briton
Melt by Eyes of Bel
Lil One by ELISHIA
glued (feat. Paige) Charlie Pittman
24 (I Try) by Robin Shipman
For You by Noah Bates
FAKE by Grace Cummings
Celestial Bodies by Angus & Julie Stone
Pipe Dream of California by Azure Ryder
Run Baby Run by Among the Restless
See THrough by effe
Wednesdays at the Waterloo by Lottie McLeod
WATERS EDGE by Georgina Dacheff
Recede by D'essa
Not Love by Margo Mann
Unlearning of Love by Rowena Wise
In the Grief by Charli Rose
Warheads by The Enthusias
Eleanor Rigby's Ghost by Gabriel Vargas
Bonsai Toothpaste by Catstronaut
WANNA BE IT by Kiri

Featured track info and artist bios:

I’m Not Going Back by Daisy Spratt
Written during my second pregnancy, "I'm Not Going Back" is a deeply personal reflection on growth and transformation. It's about leaving behind the version of myself who was easily overwhelmed, lost in anxiety, and quick to give up.
After years of learning, healing, and becoming, I finally found a sense of stability and confidence in who I am as a woman and a mother. This song is both a reminder and a promise—not only to myself, but to my daughters—that I will keep moving forward and won't return to the patterns or things that once held me back.
I'm not going back to who I was. I'm becoming who I was meant to be.

Lil one by ELISHIA
“Built around a childhood recording of my mum singing to me, Lil One is the conversation I'd have with my younger self, realising we're often so caught up chasing the end goal that we forget to look back at everything we've already achieved. Life didn't go exactly how I imagined it would, but somehow it's become even more beautiful.”
"When we wrote it, I was talking to my younger self, I was looking backwards. Now, as I'm about to become a mum myself, it's no longer just about healing my inner child, it's about the little boy I'm about to meet."
With Lil one's release landing on ELISHIA's baby due date, it also stands as an ode to soon-to-be creative mums everywhere — proof that you don't have to choose between "mum" and "creative." The two can coexist, and even bring new light to the work itself.

Fake by Grace Cummings
On the track, Cummings shares: “Sometimes, being called a ‘good girl’ is a form of abuse. And you internalise it. You spend your whole life acting out this role, even though it makes you feel sick. Even though you know it is a form of control. I hate those words, ‘good girl’. So in this song, I just choke on the first letter. The second half of the song is about the other person’s remorse.
This song was really difficult for me to write, to perform, to confess. But, the themes in ‘FAKE’ are painfully ordinary for so many women. Musically, I wanted this to begin up in the clouds, then drag you right underneath the water, viscerally. Then, you crawl out into a little tunnel. Dark. Maybe you’re falling through the rabbit hole, the vortex...you fly, you drown, and then you run.”

Pipe Dream of California by Azure Ryder
Commenting on the song, Azure said: “We are so often told that our dreams are to be found in another place, that’s what lead me to California. A last chance hope in the land of stars to catch my dream before I thought it was gone. Soon after landing there, I realised
I hadn’t landed at all, my feet were certainly falling on the pavement but my belief was adrift and calling me home. Our dreams, just like our mind, follows you wherever you are, it ultimately comes down to how you believe in yourself, and that belief is not built outside, not found under a particular sun, its in the heart that beats fiercely in your chest and only you can find it.

WATERS EDGE by Georgina Dacheff
Some songs tell a story. Others arrive as answers. "I often write to allow the space for my heart to speak," Georgina explains. "The music always ends up giving me hope and a higher perspective. Sometimes it answers the questions before I even ask them." “WATERS EDGE is a song about opening to love. Realising that trying to deny the love within me is like trying to withhold the power of a waterfall. It represents the strength of my heart that carries me on, even when feeling worn and like I have nothing left to give, I allow the power of love to carry me on."

Unlearning of Love by Rowena Wise from the album Bad Things Feel Good
New single 'Unlearning Of Love' is the sound of someone dismantling everything she was taught about love, all the exclusivity and possession and devotion drawn tightly around two people, and standing in what's left. It began with new friendships that lived somewhere between platonic and romantic: two people sitting side by side "like you're both driftwood", offering comfort without answers.
“Non-monogamy was part of the context in which I wrote this song,” says Wise. “I was experiencing the confusion of loving multiple people at once, but more than that, I was wondering what a new connection could become when there were fewer assumptions or expectations around it. There was
a real tension in not knowing where friendship ended and romance began, or whether it needed to become either. That openness could feel scary and obscure, but it was also exciting, meaningful and incredibly expansive. Getting to know people in that more open way taught me as much about myself as it did about others - how differently people love, communicate, attach and move through the world.”

Eleanor Rigby’s Ghost by Gabriel Vargas
Released 60 Years to the Day After “Eleanor Rigby” Brazilian-Australian singer-songwriter Gabriel Vargas returns with his first new music in five years with “Eleanor Rigby’s Ghost,” released exactly sixty years after the Beatles unveiled “Eleanor Rigby.” The song emerged after a vocal injury led Vargas back to songwriting following several years focused on comedy and creating digital content that reached millions online. Although inspired by the music that shaped his childhood, he describes the song not as a Beatles tribute, but as “a thank-you letter to the music that made me want to become a songwriter.” The title also draws from a childhood memory. Growing up in an
old Melbourne home, Vargas remembers waking to find toys mysteriously scattered across his bedroom floor and later learning that a young girl had reportedly died there decades earlier. Whether imagination or something more, the memory became the inspiration for the lyric, “Eleanor Rigby’s ghost... she’s asking if I want to play.” Adding another personal connection, Vargas’s uncle Brian—who spent an evening with John Lennon in Bermuda just months before Lennon’s death—visited the studio to share his story before singing harmony vocals on the track.