{"id":392677,"date":"2025-11-20T17:16:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/392677\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:16:15","slug":"how-three-best-friends-accidentally-became-one-of-indie-folks-buzziest-new-acts-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/392677\/","title":{"rendered":"How three best friends accidentally became one of indie folk\u2019s buzziest new acts \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Folk Bitch Trio pick up the phone from a night off in Brooklyn as they gear up for an upcoming show in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2025\/11\/02\/faye-webster-shines-with-the-orchestra-at-walt-disney-concert-hall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Los Angeles at Scribble<\/a> on Nov. 22, there\u2019s an ease between the three of them that\u2019s instantly noticeable, the kind that only longtime friends, and now collaborators, can pull off.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2025\/10\/30\/the-beths-travel-the-crooked-road-of-healing-on-straight-line-was-a-lie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Melbourne-based group<\/a> of Gracie Sinclair (she\/her), Jeanie Pilkington (she\/her), and Heide Peverelle (they\/them) has been singing together for five years, long before their debut album \u201cNow Would Be a Good Time\u201d began earning praise for its blunt storytelling, harmonies, and fearlessness.<\/p>\n<p>But the story of Folk Bitch Trio starts even simpler, with one gig they \u201cjust kind of ran with.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul class=\"mng-gallery-initialized mng-gallery-slider\">\n<li data-index=\"1\" class=\"mng-ge mng-gallery-active\" id=\"mng-ge-0\" aria-hidden=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Folk Bitch Trio will headline Scribble in Los Angeles on...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"  \/>\n<p>Folk Bitch Trio will headline Scribble in Los Angeles on Saturday, Nov. 22\u2026(Photo by Copper Taylor-Bogaar)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-index=\"2\" class=\"mng-ge\" id=\"mng-ge-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Folk Bitch Trio will headline Scribble in Los Angeles on...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LDN-L-FOLKBITCH-1121-01.jpg\" \/>\n<p>Folk Bitch Trio will headline Scribble in Los Angeles on Saturday, Nov. 22\u2026(Photo courtesy of Folk Bitch Trio)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-index=\"3\" class=\"mng-ge\" id=\"mng-ge-2\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Folk Bitch Trio will headline Scribble in Los Angeles on...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LDN-L-FOLKBITCH-1121-03-1.jpg\" \/>\n<p>Folk Bitch Trio will headline Scribble in Los Angeles on Saturday, Nov. 22\u2026(Photo by Copper Taylor-Bogaar)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 3<\/p>\n<p>Folk Bitch Trio will headline Scribble in Los Angeles on Saturday, Nov. 22\u2026(Photo by Copper Taylor-Bogaar)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe took our first gig and just kind of ran with it,\u201d Sinclair reflects over the phone with a laugh. \u201cWe took it seriously, seriously enough that it felt like a job, but still fun. That balance has always worked for us. We\u2019ve just taken everything as it\u2019s come, and it\u2019s been rolling ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That relaxed, almost unexpected beginning became the seed of something much deeper. Music wasn\u2019t a forced decision, it was a natural extension of their friendship. When asked what it\u2019s like to move through the world as a band of three, their answer is as straightforward as it is heartfelt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing in a band is such a unique experience, and we\u2019re lucky there are three of us doing it together,\u201d they say almost in unison. \u201cWe get to travel the world with our best friends. We know each other so well, and we\u2019re so creatively intertwined that it just works. It works really well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group first came together at the end of 2019, right before Melbourne\u2019s famously strict pandemic lockdowns placed an unexpected pause on that early momentum. They didn\u2019t write much during those months, but once restrictions reduced, they found themselves slipping back into the rhythm of singing, touring, and shaping the sound that now defines their debut album.<\/p>\n<p>And that name \u2014 Folk Bitch Trio \u2014 which, along with their distinct sound, has landed them on an NME cover story, the radar of NPR, and sold-out shows across New York and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe humor in it comes from the fact that it really was a joke,\u201d Pilkington laughed. \u201cThere was never some big, intentional decision to create a bold band name. We were just calling it what it was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet the name fits. Playful, irreverent, grounded in honesty. Much like the songs themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Recorded in Auckland to tape with producer Tom Healy, \u201cNow Would Be a Good Time\u201d\u00a0is an album built on closeness: creaking chairs, breath, harmony, the raw edges of being young and trying to figure out what it means to love, lose, and laugh at yourself along the way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to make an album that sounded like us sitting around the kitchen table, something intimate, like you\u2019re in the room with us,\u201d Pilkington shared. \u201cWe really wanted to emulate the live show, and recording to tape was the quickest way to get to the heart of that. So we ran with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their voices, distinct but extremely connected, come together through stories of delusion, heartbreak, sexual fantasy, and the strange, hyper-modern anxieties of early adulthood. They sing about breakups in crowded apartments like on \u201cGod\u2019s A Different Sword\u201d, dishonesty with \u201cHotel TV,\u201d and the feeling of unrequited love on \u201cMoth Song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But even when the songs come from individual moments, they rarely feel singular. One person\u2019s heartbreak becomes shared among the three.<\/p>\n<p>That shared lens carries onstage, too. The trio says their live arrangements shift with each performance, sometimes faster, sometimes more restrained, depending on the mood of the room. Whether they\u2019re playing in regional Australia or across capital cities like New York and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2025\/11\/14\/tyler-the-creators-camp-flog-gnaw-delayed-by-heavy-los-angeles-rain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles<\/a>, there\u2019s a spark they say they never take for granted.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the rising buzz around them, new fans, international touring, and the glow around their debut, the trio sounds grounded. They\u2019re still writing on the road, still collecting pieces of new songs, still listening for the next thing that feels right enough to bring to life.<\/p>\n<p>By the time the conversation winds down, talk turns to what the next few months hold, and their answer couldn\u2019t be more down-to-earth, or more them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe feel really ready to party, to have a hot girl Southern Hemisphere summer and then make another record,\u201d Sinclair says. \u201cWe\u2019re so excited for whatever we\u2019re going to create next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For a band whose beginnings came from a joke and a debut album that sounds like an open window into their shared living room, Folk Bitch Trio is entering a moment that feels like their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Folk Bitch Trio pick up the phone from a night off in Brooklyn as they gear up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":392678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,5497,2961,224,6080,5337,14539,1072],"class_list":{"0":"post-392677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-concerts","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-county","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-music-concerts","16":"tag-things-to-do"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}