Birth name Tim Rogers Instruments Vocals, Guitar Music group The Curse of Company | Origin Sydney, Australia Years active 1973–present | |
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Occupation(s) singer, guitarist, songwriter and composer Labels Spunk (2005 to present), Holloweyed (2012) Albums Playmates, Hurtsville, Not Worth Waiting For, Love Is Gone, Counterfeits EP Genres Rock music, Art rock, Indie rock, New wave Similar Donny Benet, Sharon Van Etten, Burke Reid, Danny Heifetz | ||
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Jack Ladder (born Tim Rogers) is a singer, guitarist, songwriter and composer from Sydney, Australia. His music is characterised by his baritone voice and poignant observations on love and death, often featuring a gallows humour.
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Career
Since 2005, Ladder has released four albums: Not Worth Waiting For (Spunk 2005), Love is Gone (Spunk 2008), Hurtsville (Spunk 2011/Holloweyed 2012) and Playmates (Self Portrait 2014). Love is Gone was short-listed for the Australian Music Prize, at which it also won the Red Bull Music Award for recognition of outstanding potential. It was also selected as Album of the Year by Who magazine.
In 2011 Ladder released Hurtsville. Following its release he was nominated in The Age (Melbourne) EG Music Awards in multiple categories, including Best Male Artist, Best Song and Best Album. The lead single, "Cold Feet", was crowned "Song of the Year" by leading Australian music site Mess & Noise, and Hurtsville was short-listed for the Australian Music Prize.
Hurtsville was released in North America via the Holloweyed label and in Germany/BENELUX via Skycap in 2012.
Praise for Hurtsville
"Hurtsville sounds like Hurtsville – It's honest, rich & like nothing else." Inpress
"Ladder continues to thrill, frustrate and intrigue." Beat magazine
"A terrifying wasp-factory novella of disgust." The Age
"Taking subversion to another level. 9/10" Vice
"5 stars." Time Out
Tours and live performances
Jack Ladder has performed throughout Australia since 2005, playing capitals and regional centres on national tours to support all three albums, in 2005, 2008, 2011 and in 2012 to support the shortlisting of Hurtsville for the Australian Music Prize. He has appeared at music festivals such as Lanewayl, Peats Ridge Festival and the Meredith Music Festival. He has also performed internationally, making appearances in London, Berlin, New York and Los Angeles. Ladder has shared stages with John Cale, The Horrors, Bill Callahan and Okkervil River, for whom he contributed to The Stand Ins project. He also features on the live Bill Callahan record Rough Travel For A Rare Thing (Drag City 2010), playing bass guitar on the single, "Rough Travel For A Rare Thing".
Ladder has appeared on the Fox breakfast show Good Day New York in 2008, performing "You Won't Be Forgotten (When You Leave)", and in 2009 on Australian celebrity music quiz show Rockwiz, performing "The Barber's Son". His song "Two Clocks" appears in the season finale of Australian crime drama Underbelly, and in 2011 Ladder recorded his own version of "The 12 Days of Christmas" for Australian underwear manufacturer Bonds.
In 2012 Jack Ladder composed the soundtrack, and curated forgotten 1960s and 1970s music, for a sketch horror show titled Watch With Mother, created for iPad and tablet computers, which was the first of its genre. It was available as an app and serialized show via the iTunes store and Google Play.
Discography
Songs
Come on Back This WayPlaymates · 2014
To Keep & To Be KeptPlaymates · 2014
Love Is GoneLove Is Gone · 2008