Creatives

LilliPilli’s creatives form a diverse collective of noteworthy and award-winning composers, singers, songwriters and players who are all united in their dedication to making exceptional music.

Meet them here

Abby Dobson
Abby Dobson

Abby Dobson is a singer and songwriter. She was a founding member of Leonardo’s Bride and now has a French-flavoured side-project named Baby et Lulu. Abby’s smoky vocals and heart-catching delivery invest her songs with a distinctive individuality as she showcases on her second solo album It’s Okay, Sweetheart

Aine Tyrrell
Aine Tyrrell

Aine Tyrrell is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She is a solo artist with a haunting voice, a troubadour with an acute ear for the story within a song. She comes from a musical family and has been singing, playing and touring for her entire life. She recorded her latest album, Return to the Sea, in lounge rooms, front bars, old churches and remote islands across her homeland, Ireland

Amanda Brown
Amanda Brown

Amanda Brown is a versatile screen composer who has an intuitive grasp of the emotion of a scene. She began her career as a member of the influential Brisbane outfit the Go-Betweens before pivoting to scoring. Eight Guitars is her first solo album of songs with each one featuring a different guest guitarist drawn from a pool of regular collaborators and like-minded friends. Most recently, she co-composed the score for the Stan. drama series Prosper starring Richard Roxburgh and Rebecca Gibney. Amanda was awarded Best Original Score in Television at the 2024 AACTA Awards and also Best Music for a Television Series or Serial at the 2023 Screen Music Awards for her idiosyncratic, choral-inspired score for Deadloch, Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan’s hilarious whodunnit for Amazon Prime

Ashley Davies
Ashley Davies

Ashley Davies is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist and composer with a showman’s flair for the dramatic. He began his musical life drumming in indie bands and graduated to playing with numerous high profile local and international acts as an A-list guest artist. He has also recorded as a solo artist and created live theatre shows, for which he also wrote the score. His latest release The Level, is a slinky, alternative roots instrumental that hints at the modern jazz sounds of Cannonball Adderley and Joe Zawinul of the 1960s

Bryony Marks
Bryony Marks

Bryony Marks is a classically trained composer who brings a formal rigour to her elegant music. Her range extends from scores for high-rating TV drama and comedy shows to orchestral pieces. She recently collaborated with the Australian Chamber Orchestra on the children's theatrical production The Princess, the Pea (and the Brave Escapee) which had its premiere in September 2023. Bryony's latest release is Just a Farmer (Original Soundtrack) - a heartbreakingly beautiful score that features guitarist Shane O’Mara, violinist/violist Jenny Thomas and vocalist Hayden Calnin

Caitlin Yeo
Caitlin Yeo

Caitlin Yeo is a screen composer whose signature style emerges from a fascination with both music from different cultures and 20th century form. She has worked as a composer for her entire musical career, starting in documentaries and scoring now for major productions. Her collaboration with Damien Lane on the music for the ABC TV feature documentary The Dark Emu Story was awarded Best Original Score in a Documentary at the 2024 AACTA Awards. Her latest release is the haunting original score she composed for the Stan Original four-part psychological drama series Bad Behaviour. Caitlin is the recipient of the 2022 Sydney UNESCO City of Film Award

Cherry Flambe
Cherry Flambe

Cherry Flambe is the alter-ego of singer/songwriter and cabaret burlesque performer, Michelle Pleasance. She draws upon the timeless style of Peggy Lee, Lauren Bacall and Nancy Sinatra to bring to life a glamorous chanteuse with a taste for the dark side. Introducing … Cherry Flambe is her debut album

Damien Lane
Damien Lane

Damien Lane is a film composer known for his distinctively eclectic scores. He also works as a producer, arranger and performing artist. Among his notable collaborators is Jodi Phillis, with whom he co-wrote the score for the ABC TV series Soundtrack to Our Teenage Zombie Apocalypse. Their song Rollercoaster from the series was awarded Best Song Composed for the Screen at the 2023 Screen Music Awards. Damien also collaborated with Caitlin Yeo on the music for the ABC TV feature documentary The Dark Emu Story which was awarded Best Original Score in a Documentary at the 2024 AACTA Awards. Ventura is the first release from Damien's forthcoming album of instrumental works

Endorphin
Endorphin

Eric Chapus is a screen composer and recording artist. He first came to national attention as one of Triple J’s first Unearthed artists as Endorphin. His screen work includes collaborating with Amanda Brown on the score for On the Ropes (SBS TV). For his PhD thesis, he created Classics, an album of classical compositions recontextualised in an electronica idiom. His latest offering is Ambient Chill Volumes 1-3, a collection awash with the wild beauty of Oceania landscapes

Jesse Younan
Jesse Younan

Jesse Younan was a singer-songwriter who released a mere three albums before he died from cancer in July 2008. The studio album Take Something Beautiful: the Songs of Jesse Younan was released posthumously. His songs are shaded with melancholy and a yearning intensity

Jodi Phillis
Jodi Phillis

Jodie Phillis is a singer/songwriter and composer with an unmistakeable vocal style. Her musical career began in the 1990s with the much-loved alt-rock band the Clouds. Her latest album is We Need to be Free, for which she collaborated with Damien Lane to create an enigmatic soundscape with hints of chamber folk, warped psychedelia and melancholy pop. Jodi also collaborated with Damien on the score for the ABC TV series Soundtrack to Our Teenage Zombie Apocalypse. Their song Rollercoaster from the series was awarded Best Song Composed for the Screen at the 2023 Screen Music Awards

 

Pleasantville
Pleasantville

Pleasantville is an all-family affair for Richard and Michelle Pleasance. Richard, ex Boom Crash Opera hit-maker and more recently acclaimed screen composer, lays down the backing for Michelle’s warm, seductive vocals. The pair’s love of vintage sounds and singers is ever-present. The result is a mix that’s exotic in atmosphere and sweetly haunting. Their track Wentworth (You Don't Know Me) is the theme song from the hit TV series Wentworth

Richard Pleasance
Richard Pleasance

Richard Pleasance is a screen composer, music producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His sound has broad appeal and an engaging accessibility, dating back to the monster hits he wrote or co-wrote with Boom Crash Opera. His screen work includes all nine seasons of the TV series Wentworth for Foxtel Showcase. His latest release is Crooked River, a collection of instrumentals that weave a gentle but eerie magic that lingers long in the imagination

Rick Price
Rick Price

Rick Price is a music producer and a singer/songwriter who can charm a crowd from South Brisbane to southern Tennessee. He is a self-taught musician who has forged an international career spanning more than three decades. Rick's most recent release is Wayfaring Stranger, a collection of some of his favourite old-time gospel standards and evergreen hymns . As well as the title track, it also features 'Rock My Soul', 'Wade in the Water', 'Amazing Grace' and 'Will the Circle be Unbroken'