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Blair McQuade is a Sydney based songwriter who has been playing the Sydney scene for a number of years. 2014 saw the release of his first Album ‘Sky Blue Unknown’ with the lead track ‘Winter’ gaining warm reviews. 2015 saw the release of the follow up ‘Amber lights’. Says Blair “Sky blue unknown was really an experiment for me. I’d been playing in bands in Sydney and Canberra for some time and had accumulated bunch of songs. Because of the cost of recording bands I’d always had more songs than I was able to get recorded. ‘A couple of years ago I set up my own studio - Capital Q - and put down the tracks that became ‘Sky Blue Unknown’. I learned a lot through the process. ‘Amber Lights’ saw me striving for a rawer sound that filtered a mix of The Jam, REM and The Go betweens. That said people I have played it to said it sounds like Kurt Vile!” 2016 has seen the release of “Blends” the third record by Blair McQuade. “On this one I pushed myself to get the sound I wanted I took a lot