Shêm Allen
Meanjin
Loved our last trip to Naarm. This is from the beautiful Cactus Room shot by @ncr7.z and audio shared by @sonicproof. Thanks @jan_in_music for asking us down. 🖤 🪩

Launch tour was super fun after a long time in The Becoming. The mission of making records is so so many things. Giving the songs from The Headland new life out there across the county with @foolishem this last month has been a joy. We got to play in some awesome spaces with the most incredible bands. Thanks to everyone who made these shows so special with us.
1: Post MONA transit delay
2: Hoteling
4: Halldis in the world 📷 @tigalil
5: Season Three 📷 Lake
6: My dear comrade
7: Marked graves over Gadigal Lands

Launch tour was super fun after a long time in The Becoming. The mission of making records is so so many things. Giving the songs from The Headland new life out there across the county with @foolishem this last month has been a joy. We got to play in some awesome spaces with the most incredible bands. Thanks to everyone who made these shows so special with us.
1: Post MONA transit delay
2: Hoteling
4: Halldis in the world 📷 @tigalil
5: Season Three 📷 Lake
6: My dear comrade
7: Marked graves over Gadigal Lands
Launch tour was super fun after a long time in The Becoming. The mission of making records is so so many things. Giving the songs from The Headland new life out there across the county with @foolishem this last month has been a joy. We got to play in some awesome spaces with the most incredible bands. Thanks to everyone who made these shows so special with us.
1: Post MONA transit delay
2: Hoteling
4: Halldis in the world 📷 @tigalil
5: Season Three 📷 Lake
6: My dear comrade
7: Marked graves over Gadigal Lands

Launch tour was super fun after a long time in The Becoming. The mission of making records is so so many things. Giving the songs from The Headland new life out there across the county with @foolishem this last month has been a joy. We got to play in some awesome spaces with the most incredible bands. Thanks to everyone who made these shows so special with us.
1: Post MONA transit delay
2: Hoteling
4: Halldis in the world 📷 @tigalil
5: Season Three 📷 Lake
6: My dear comrade
7: Marked graves over Gadigal Lands
Launch tour was super fun after a long time in The Becoming. The mission of making records is so so many things. Giving the songs from The Headland new life out there across the county with @foolishem this last month has been a joy. We got to play in some awesome spaces with the most incredible bands. Thanks to everyone who made these shows so special with us.
1: Post MONA transit delay
2: Hoteling
4: Halldis in the world 📷 @tigalil
5: Season Three 📷 Lake
6: My dear comrade
7: Marked graves over Gadigal Lands

Launch tour was super fun after a long time in The Becoming. The mission of making records is so so many things. Giving the songs from The Headland new life out there across the county with @foolishem this last month has been a joy. We got to play in some awesome spaces with the most incredible bands. Thanks to everyone who made these shows so special with us.
1: Post MONA transit delay
2: Hoteling
4: Halldis in the world 📷 @tigalil
5: Season Three 📷 Lake
6: My dear comrade
7: Marked graves over Gadigal Lands

Tour so far has been rad. Thank you for coming to the shows, slow dancing and buying the album. Means so much. This Friday is the home show at @seasonthreespace upstairs of @echoandbounce_
Doctor Robot is coming from the year 9 Million and Sky and Leif are (re)formed for their second ever once-only show. This one is special. Tix in bio.
@anotherplanetwithanothername
@doctorrobot9000000
@foolishem
22 November 2025. It’s a definite vibe. The first show I ever saw at Golden Age was Party Dozen as part of VIVID back in 2018. I was up close and it was classy. Just how I like it. We are thrilled to play with Hubcaps for this show on Gadigal Lands and very much ready to lean into the big city night. Doors are 8pm music from 10pm and it’s free.
Community radio is the mycelium of the music scene. 🍄 We had fun being a part of the Zed50 series on Right Here Right Now. 🖤
Thank you Bella, Claire, Natalia, Alex, Poppy and all the sweet humans that worked on the show last night and the rest who keep us all connected through the station every hour of every day.
14 November 2025. Let’s go to the theatre. The Headland Tour stops at Nighthawks in beautiful Naarm/Melbourne. I have been wanting to play with Aeon Hakyavik since 2018 when love and luck had me at a 2am live set in a Preston backyard to celebrate Lachy’s sun lapping.Thrilled to get to play with the modular synth wizard. And I’ve been a fan of the glorious patient tones of Mug since seeing Jerkfest vids and spotting Lilly who I met and befriended as her voice failed her but her spirit was soaring watching Carly Ray at Golden Plains in the supernatural amphitheater in 2023.
Let me put you all on my shoulders for this one! It is going to be a good night. Tickets in the bio.

The Headland is out today on Scope Creep. Wowee!🖤
There are 100 copies of this clear vinyl pressing made in Meanjin by Suitcase Records.
The linktree in my bio lets you buy direct from me or stream the album.
Contact me about local collection options down the east coast - I will be traveling with these songs over the next couple of months playing them with Shem Allen - dates and venues announced shortly.
Songs on The Headland were written by Louise O’Reilly
Except The Witching Hour - Written with Matthew Engelbrecht & Vinnie Laduce
Mixed by Vinnie Laduce
Except Black Balloons - Mixed by Joss Rigby
Mastered by Jordan Power
Cover photo by Dane Beesley with Phoebe Manning as puppeteer
Halldis designed and made by Bryony Anderson
Graphic design by Tony Gooley
Many thanks to Arts Queensland for supporting my stay at the NES Artist Residency in Iceland where most of these songs were written.
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