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Tasmanian musician Jonathon Coleman writes and records under the name Bully Hay — an Australian alternative rock project built on contrast: dark yet hopeful, gritty yet melodic. Following the critial success of his 2024 debut Black Dogs and Songbirds — an 11-track release produced, recorded and mixed by Jeff Martin of The Tea Party and mastered by Grammy-nominated Joe Carra — Coleman now enters a defining new chapter with his upcoming album, Anywhere But Here. This is Bully Hay’s second album, self-produced and written across the collapse, aftermath, and uneasy rebirth that followed the end of a 24-year marriage. It’s a record about grief, survival, and reinvention, capturing the emotional whiplash of losing the life you built and trying to work out who you are when it’s gone. Sonically, the album moves across a wide landscape. Dark alt-rock songs collide with 80s-nostalgic textures, cinematic keys and synths, and moments of stripped-back folk intimacy. With big rock guitars, layered harmonies, and a bold range of instrumentation including hurdy gurdy, Bully Hay builds a sound that feels both raw and expansive, shifting between punchy catharsis and quiet, bruised reflection. According to Bully Hay “This is a record about what happens when the ground disappears under you, and you still have to keep walking.” Lyrically, the album moves like memory: fractured, vivid, and brutally honest. Bully Hay writes from the trenches of love, loss and identity, capturing the quiet moments where nothing is said, the late-night spirals, and the strange, flickering hope that returns when you least expect it. It’s an album filled with recurring imagery of oceans, rivers, dust, shadows and fire, where emotional collapse is treated with the same weight as survival. Two singles from the album are already out: “Another Lost Soldier”, a driving alt-rock statement built around a huge chorus and emotional urgency, and “Running Up That Hill”, an intimate acoustic cover of the Kate Bush classic, reimagined with restraint and vulnerability. Set for release on 6 March 2026, Anywhere But Here isn’t a breakup album in the predictable sense. It’s a survival album, written by someone who stayed long enough to lose everything, and lived long enough to rebuild. A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, Coleman has toured nationally, performing at Festival of Voices, Taste of Summer and Festivale, and supporting artists including Jeff Martin (The Tea Party) on two national tours, Monique Brumby, Dead Letter Circus, Ash Grunwald, The Wolfe Brothers and Boy & Bear.