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MURDENA BIOGRAPHY Murdena are lead by brother/sister combo Hugh and Annie-Rose Maloney, along with their exceptional band mates Ivan Blacket, Daniel Mckoy and Mitch Rice. Growing up in and around Geelong, Annie and Hugh always had affection towards music and can’t remember a time when they weren’t humming along, strumming, or whacking something to create songs together. That was solidified when they moved to Melbourne to be closer to the action and start putting a band together. Melbourne has been good to the band having sold out two EP launch shows and taking honours at Tamworth’s battle of the bands in 2013. In 2015 an opportunity came up to go to Paradise in Tasmania and work with engineer Bart Thomas. Bart’s studio is quite unique. It’s a log cabin turned recording studio, 100% off the grid in Tasmania’s lush bushland. In just 8 days the band had tracked an album completely live, capturing the organic nature of Murdena. The second single off the ten-track album is called