If Marie-Louise wasn’t spending her time playing bass, piano and drums, she’d be an eco warrior chaining herself to trees. Her fierce feline revolutionaries at home, Nzinga, Nadezhda and Zetkin, would prefer to see her chained to the fridge door for cat snacks. But, alas…

​

Josh Shipton (noun: describing the space where a hinge should be but isn’t) - Sydney-based bassist, vocalist, artist, guitarist, songwriter, composer, conductor, curator, evangelical atheist and anarchist. A man who enjoys a good pop song as much as screaming louder than the void can scream at him. He takes his medicine, turns up on time and has an excellent cat named Zeus.

​

Valerios is currently owned by “Douggie” an antisocial 14 year old black cat. Douggie is a play on words seeing that Doug is “dog” in Scottish. Douggie left home and is currently writing his memoirs from the Scottish border town Galashiels since being banned from the Herriot-Watt University of Textiles and Design after shredding an historic 18th century quilt.

​

Sketch by John O’Driscoll at Ochredfern Gallery