About the Artist
Emerging Australian country artist Hayden Phillis unveils his gripping new single ‘Stick Poke Tattoos’, an energetic, roots-driven country rock release that blends gritty storytelling with magnetic emotional honesty.
For Hayden, the song came together in an unusually organic way, sparked by equal parts musical inspiration and real life unfolding in real time.
“I wrote the chorus right after seeing Tyler Childers in concert. I’d gotten home late and wanted to play something up tempo that still had a bit of darkness about it. So, I pulled up voice memos and while playing saw my friend had been messaging about rather problematic behaviours from a girl he was casually dating and just reading through the story of what was going on with him was enough to spark the song idea.”
Over time that idea grew almost on its own.
“After that I kept adding to it whenever something new would happen with him or with someone else and eventually those stories came together, and I finally ended up with ‘Stick Poke Tattoos’. The tale of my friends' failing relationships and their fears that came with it.”
The release marks the first taste of new music from Hayden’s forthcoming second album, recorded earlier this year at The Rabbit Hole Recording Studio, where Brandon Dodd once again stepped behind the desk after producing Hayden’s acclaimed debut record ‘Too Young’.
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