In a first for us, we will be launching our latest single at a gig. Come along to The Triffid on Sun 21 April around 4 to help us celebrate!
Alt-country, Americana, indie rock. It's what we do...
Mermaid Avenue are a Brisbane/Meanjin based band, formed in 2015 around the songwriting of Peter Clarke and current members Mike Kearey, Casey Lee, Nathan Poetschka and Mark Egan. Our music travels the backroads from Americana to indie rock, with a few slight detours along the way.
We are prolific songwriters and are always releasing new music into the wild. You can hear it on most of the major platforms, and almost all of the minor ones.
Our latest album, 'Loveday No. 9', has just been released.
Updates
'Embers of Fires Gone' makes ISC semi-finals
MA would like to thank the judges for selecting the opening track from album #3 (Loveday No. 9) as a semifinalist in the International Songwriting Competition. It's the first of our songs to be selected in this prestigious comp and we are stoked!
'Sugartown' makes the semifinals in Nashville songwriting comp
Well, that's a nice midweek surprise! Sugartown, the title track from our second album, has made the semifinals in the Americana category of Nashville's UO songwriting comp.
'Loveday No. 9' - the title track from our new album drops today 
'Loveday No. 9' is the title track from our third album (which is being released later this year). Despite the upbeat, quirky nature of the music, the song is about Pete Clarke's Italian grandfather, Alfie, who emigrated to Australia pre-WWII to escape the rise of fascism in his own country. After the second world war started, a combination of paranoia and xenophobia in Australia saw Italian ex-pats like Alfie consigned to internment camps for suspicion of being 'Nazi sympathisers' . Alfie spent 4 years in…
Read more'Prisoner' selected as finalist in International Song of the Year
Our song 'Prisoner' has been selected by the judges as a finalist in Blues and Roots Radio's International Song of the Year 2022.