Jae Laffer @ Tanswells

Jae Laffer is recognised as one of Australia’s finest songwriters. For close to 20 years as the frontman and songwriter with The Panics, he has released five critically acclaimed albums with the band. In 2008 the band's Cruel Guards album won an ARIA Award as well as the coveted Triple J Album of The Year.

Laffer has cultivated a reputation for lush, cinematic pop that embraces both stark intimacy and unapologetic poetic grandeur. In 2020 he released his second solo album, The Long Daydream, through EMI Australia.