JOANNE JOINS CANCELLED COLLECTIVE THE RADIO SHOW TO CHAT ABOUT HER UPCOMING LIVE SHOW AT ONESIXONE.

Tune in on Wednesday the 28th of August at 10PM with Australian trailblazer Joanne. We’ll chat about her upcoming LIVE show at onesixone, the inspiration behind her new sound and what’s coming up next.

The Australian trailblazer Joanne Accom – or just Joanne – is not the same artist who broke out specrcularly in 1998 with the now house music classic Jackie, winning ARIA for ‘Highest Selling Single’ the following year. She has grown. And, 25 years on, Joanne isn’t done surprising the music scene – or herself.

Melbourne’s Queen of R&B and Hpuse isn’t so much as launching a comeback as manifesting a continuation. “It’s like starting over but I’m not starting over with where I’m going right now,” she declares. “I’m so excited. I think I might be more excited than I was back then – and I was a very excited kid.”

Joanne has always been “a real music nerd.” Born in London, with South African heritage, she was raised in a no-nonsense household, attending church and prioritising education – her parents nonetheless supporting any extracarricular interest in the arts, dancing and music. Thanks to her older isster, Joanne developed an affinity for vintage R&B, soul and funk (Chaka Khan, Anita Baker and Shalamar) before discovering contemporary R&B, hip-hop and house (as a kid she’d constantly sing Black Box’s Ride on Time at hoe, laughing,  “My poor family got no peace whatsoever!”).

In 2022, Joanne accompanied local punk band Private Function at the Meredith Music Festival for a rousing rendition of Jackie that went viral. Now she’s “coming full circle”, recording a modish disco house version of Jackie for its 25th anniversary produced by Australia’s Mind Electric, in addition to various other remixes. “I’m really excited to re-do the song that so many people love, and celebrate that song, but to bring my current vocal to it. But also it is very exciting to bring a new edge and a new sound to it in 2023.” Indeed, Jackie 2023 has “conviction”.

However, Joanne does have fresh music in the pipeline. She’s fascinated by DJ culture – and the proliferation of dance genres in the digital age. “I’m obsessed with the studio – I always like to call myself a co-pilot when I’m in there.” Imagine it as a renaissance.

Tickets to onesixone LIVE presents JOANNE (supported by Claire Knight and Diloncé) are on sale now. You can find more info about it on the Kiss FM Gig Guide here