The Magic Lantern (UK) Hobart House Concert 2nd edition with Tilley

Due to our first house concert with The Magic Lantern selling out within the day, we have added a second!! Still super intimate with limited tickets so please book early :)

The Magic Lantern is the moniker of singer-songwriter and composer Jamie Doe, an artist blurring the boundaries between folk, jazz and contemporary music. Born in Australia before moving to the UK at 12, The Magic Lantern has released four full length albums and toured the UK, Europe and Australia alongside This Is The Kit, Sam Lee and Alabaster Deplume among others.

His fifth album ’To Everything A Season’ was written and recorded in the months following his daughter's birth and his father's death six weeks later. In their brief meeting in a dementia nursing home, two ends of the circle of life touched. Of that cathartic moment, Jamie says 'I saw myself in my father, and my daughter in me and I felt joy and grief in overlapping waves, beautiful and complicated, which continue to ripple outward' These songs are my attempt to make sense of this incredible time - ‘A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted’

Performing an intimate solo set, The Magic Lantern's live show captures a rare emotional immediacy through Jamie’s arresting vocal lyricism and piercing lyrics, crafting songs that examine the limitless depth of the human experience with devastating, joyous results. 

Opening the evening is local songstress Tilley

Those with a searching heart come to Tilley’s music and find a dark, mysterious landscape, a vast sky wheeling overhead, filled with sparkling stars. There are no answers here, but this is a place where the truth is found through better, deeper, questions.

Tilley’a mesmerising voice, echoed by melancholic electric guitar, invites you to drink deep from the well of feeling, and come up for air with fresh aliveness. Vulnerable songs about connection, transformation, and the complexity of what it means to be human. 

Based in Hobart, she has presented at TEDx, sung BVs for Damon Albarn, and lent her voice to the soundtrack of feature film "Guilty" by Robin Fox. Her diverse influences make her music difficult to pin down to a single genre, with elements of folk, rock, jazz, soul, and alternative music.

Tilley's performances transform heartbreak into restoring ambrosia, and give human joy and love their due worship.  Here we bleed, and here we dance. 

Please pre-book with a nominated donation amount which will go directly to the musicians. BYO drinks and snacks. 

The address (in West Moonah) will be sent to ticket holders once you pre-book.