Jack Ladder

Jack Ladder
Birth name Tim Rogers
Origin Sydney, Australia
Genres Rock, art rock, indie rock, new wave
Occupation(s) Singer, Guitarist, Songwriter and Composer
Instruments Vocals, Guitar
Years active 1973–present
Labels Spunk (2005 to present), Holloweyed (2012)
Website www.hurtsville.com

Jack Ladder is a singer / songwriter / composer from Sydney, Australia. His music is characterised by his baritone voice and poignant observations on love and death, often featuring a gallows humour.

Biography

Tim Rogers, known professionally as Jack Ladder, is an Australian singer, guitarist, songwriter and composer.

Since 2005 he 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 where it also won the Red Bull Music Award for recognition of outstanding potential. It was also selected as Album of the Year by Who Weekly magazine.

In 2011 Ladder released Hurtsville. Following its release he was nominated in The Melbourne Age EG Music Awards in multiple categories including Best Male Artist, Best Song and Best Album. Lead single "Cold Feet" was crowned "Song of the Year" by leading Australian music site Mess & Noise and Hurtsville was again garnered Jack a shortlisted album for the Australian Music Prize.

Hurtsville was released in North America via the Holloweyed label and Germany/BENELUX via Skycap in 2012.

Jack Ladder has performed throughout Australia and internationally, making appearances in London, Berlin, New York and Los Angeles. He 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.

He has appeared on the Fox breakfast show Good Day New York in 2008 performing "You Won't Be Forgotten (When You Leave)" and on Australian celebrity music quiz show Rockwiz performing "The Barber's Son" in 2009. His song "Two Clocks" appears in the season finale of Australian crime drama Underbelly (series) 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 ‘60s and ‘70s music for a sketch horror show created for iPad and tablet computers (the first of its genre) titled Watch With Mother, available as an app and serialized show via the iTunes store and Google Play.

Discography

Tours and live performances

Jack Ladder has had an extensive touring history across Australia since 2005, playing capitals and regional centres on national tours to support all three albums, in ’05, ’08, ’11 and in 2012 to support the shortlisting of ‘Hurtsville’ for the Australian Music Prize.

He has appeared at such notable festivals such as Laneway Festival (VIC & NSW), Peats Ridge Festival (NSW), Meredith Festival (VIC).

Ladder has also performed internationally, in London, Berlin, New York and Los Angeles.

Ladder has shared stages with John Cale, The Horrors, Bill Callanhan and Okkervil River.

In 2008 Ladder appeared on the Fox breakfast show Good Day New York performing “You Won’t Be Forgotten (When You Leave)”. In 2009 Ladder performed “The Barber’s Son” on Australian celebrity music quiz show Rockwiz. Ladders song “Two Clocks” appears in the season finale of Australian crime drama Underbelly (Nine Network 2009).

In 2010 Ladder performed as bass guitarist on Bill Callahan’s single, Rough Travel For A Rare Thing, featured on live album, Drag City.

Praise for ‘Hurtsville’

Love is Gone won the Red Bull Music Award for recognition of outstanding potential.[2]

Love is Gone was also selected as Album of the year by Who Weekly magazine.

“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 Timeout

References

  1. ↑ The ARIA Report, Issue 1291
  2. ↑ "Eddy Current Suppression Ring takes out $30k music prize". abc.net.au. 20 March 2009. Retrieved 5 August 2013.

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