IT IS difficult to keep Freya Josephine Hollick out of the studio.
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The Ballarat-based singer-songwriter released an EP late last year followed by a single from her upcoming album but still has a lot more songs ready to record.
“My favourite thing to do is to make records. The last little live album I put out was something to to do while raising a baby on my own,” she said.
“I want to keep in the studio and keep producing stuff. I’ve got songs for another seven records ready to go. I write a lot (because) I get bored playing same songs, so I like to release records regularly.”
Hollick’s last album The Unceremonious Junking of Me was nominated for The Age Music Awards but the singer is already looking forward to new recordings.
“I recorded that album three years ago just after my daughter was born and it came out at the end of 2016,” she said. “(The record) had a long gestation and I was kind of sick of it but the people at The Age seemed to like it,” she said.
‘It was something to do while I was raising a baby on my own and it became record I don’t listen to and find hard to play songs from because it was from a difficult period in my life.”
Hollick said when her daughter was born three years ago she slowed down momentarily.
“There was a bit of a dry songwriting spell for three months (when my daughter was born) but the floodgates opened again,” she said.
“Usually when she's asleep and its two in the morning, I write songs. There are four guitars next to my bed, so instead of sleeping I wake up from a dream and finish a song.”
Hollick will feature at Castlemaine’s Theatre Royal on Friday, February 23, as part of a short 12-date tour.
“It’s a limited east coast tour that started in Ballarat on my birthday, which was nice in a new small venue in town. It also sold out which was great,” she said. “And I always love coming through and playing in Castlemaine.
“I have done quite a bit of festival touring but not played in many pubs, so I’m playing some smaller venues.”
Hollick said she was enjoying returning to smaller venues after a series of festival gigs.
“It such a different thing. I like playing pubs because it’s a more relaxed vibe,” she said.
“You are also playing for longer and get to talk to everyone at the end. At a festival you run off the adrenaline of playing to a few thousand people.
“I (grew) up playing in pubs, so it’s nice to return to it as a low key thing to do.”
Freya Josephine Hollick is at the Theatre Royal in Castlemaine on Friday, February 24.