By Luke Voogt
Australia’s power couple of country, Adam Eckersley and Brooke McClymont, will invite Geelong locals into their lives when they play at Corio next month.
“The majority of the shows we’re sitting on stools telling stories between songs,“ Eckersley said.
“It’s like we’re just in our kitchen telling jokes and having a chat.”
“People always go away knowing a bit more about Adam and I – which is great,“ McClymont added.
The couple spoke to the Indy after McClymont and her sisters hosted the Australian Country Music Channel’s annual awards.
“The girls and I really sunk our teeth into it,” she said. “We didn’t stuff up too much so that was good.”
It was a big night for The McClymonts, who won best group, and Eckersley got stuck into the celebrations after the win.
“There are probably some details I can’t tell because I can’t remember,” he laughed.
“We still think we’re teenagers at 3am but we’re quickly reminded, when our little girl comes in at 7am, that we’re not anymore. We’re well past that.”
Eckersley and McClymont are veterans of the industry but their latest album, Adam & Brooke, is the first time they have recorded together.
They smashed out the album in five weeks while McClymont’s sisters, Molly and Sam, who she normally plays with, were “concentrating on being mums”.
“We had this brief window of time and we thought we’d get stuck into it,” Eckersley said.
“We spent a lot of time writing over those few weeks of fury.”
But their experience writing for each other made the task easy, his wife added.
“If anything it’s been quite nice. We work really well together.”
McClymont described the response to the album as amazing.
“Now we’re on this massive tour,” she said.
“We enjoy the travelling too – we get to see Australia and get paid for making music.”
The couple’s five-year-old daughter has also joined them on some of their latest travels.
“We don’t want to have her out of school too often but it’s been great for her to see the country,” Eckersley said.
“She has a real natural flare for music. I think she thinks all of her friends’ parents play music as well.
“We’re not pushing her into anything but she’s been surrounded by music her whole life – even in the belly.”
“I was still touring when I was eight months pregnant,” McClymont explained.
Their gig at the Gateway Hotel on 14 April will be the first time they have played at the venue together, she added.
“The crowd just get into it there – they’re awesome. It’s a long drive down so please come and see us.”
