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38-452: Courtney Melba Barnett (born 3 November 1987) is an Australian singer, songwriter, and musician. Known for her deadpan singing style and witty, rambling lyrics, she attracted attention with the release of her debut EP I've Got a Friend Called Emily Ferris in 2012. International interest came with the release of her EP The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas in 2013. Barnett's debut album— Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit —

76-601: A Grammy Award in the Best New Artist category. She was later nominated for Best International Female in 2016 for the Brit awards . On 21 May 2016, she was the musical guest on the season finale of Saturday Night Live ' s 41st season , hosted by Fred Armisen . In January 2016, Barnett appeared on the cover of Australian music magazine, Happy Mag . On 27 May 2016, she was the musical guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon . In 2017, Barnett and Kurt Vile recorded

114-408: A 1928 New York Times article as having the first appearance of the term in print. That article, a collection of film slang compiled by writer and theatrical agent Frank J. Wilstach , defines "dead pan" as "playing a role with expressionless face, as, for instance, the work of Buster Keaton." There were several other uses of the term, in theater and in sports, between the 1915 Bresnahan article and

152-622: A Barnett track, "Pickles from the Jar", the song was voted in at number 51 in Triple J's Hottest 100 for 2014 . On 30 January 2015, Barnett released details on her upcoming full-length album, recorded in April 2014 with Burke Reid , along with two singles, "Pedestrian at Best" and "Depreston", and accompanying music videos. The music video for "Pedestrian at Best" features Cloher and Fraser A Gorman. Her debut album— Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit —

190-606: A chorus pedal. Barnett was in a relationship with fellow musician Jen Cloher from 2012 to 2018, and the song "Numbers" was co-written by the pair about their relationship. Barnett's song "Pickles from the Jar" also details their relationship, and Cloher is mentioned in the first line of "Dead Fox". Barnett called Cloher a "huge constant influence" on her music. She also played guitar in Cloher's band from 2012 to 2018. Current Former Session/touring The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known informally as AIR Awards )

228-498: A combined package of Barnett's first EP and her second EP, How to Carve a Carrot Into a Rose . The Double EP brought Barnett international critical acclaim, with "Avant Gardener", the lead single, named Track of the Day by Q Magazine and Best New Track by Pitchfork in 2013. It was named the album of the week by Stereogum The track "History Eraser" was nominated for the APRA Song of

266-549: A deadpan delivery. Monty Python include it in their work, such as " The Ministry of Silly Walks " sketch. For his deadpan delivery Peter Sellers received a BAFTA for Best Actor for I'm All Right Jack (1959). A leading figure of the British satire boom of the 1960s, Peter Cook delivered deadpan monologues in his double act with Dudley Moore . In his various roles Ricky Gervais often draws humour from an exasperated sigh. While in his various guises such as Ali G and Borat ,

304-569: A music career, she worked as a pizza delivery driver. From 2010 to 2011, Barnett played second guitar in Melbourne grunge band Rapid Transit. They released one self-titled album on cassette. She recorded many early versions of her songs with a band called Courtney Barnett and the Olivettes, which was later shortened to the Olivettes. They released a live EP demo CD, with 100 copies being produced which were hand numbered. Around this time Barnett featured on

342-453: A new album on her social media accounts, featuring her trying out various musical instruments with the clip ending with the tagline "Tell Me How You Really Feel". Barnett released the singles "Nameless, Faceless", "Need A Little Time", "City Looks Pretty", and "Sunday Roast" from her sophomore solo album, which was launched at a private function at Sydney's Lansdowne Hotel in April 2018 and emceed by ex– The Go-Betweens Lindy Morrison . The album

380-471: A smile and would be the last man you would suspect was working a trick." George M. Cohan , in a 1908 interview, had alluded to dead pans without using the actual term "deadpan". Cohan, after returning from a trip to London, told an interviewer that "the time is ripe for a manager to take over about a dozen American chorus girls and wake up the musical comedy game. The English chorus girls are dead–their pans are cold.” The Oxford English Dictionary cites

418-509: A surprise busking gig in Camden, London. In concert, Dan Luscombe (of The Drones ) has often played lead guitar and keyboards, having featured on both, How to Carve a Carrot Into a Rose and Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit , the latter of which he co-produced. When Luscombe was not available, the band performed as a trio , with Barnett playing guitar. Luscombe did not play on Barnett's 2015 tours, however, and she now refers to

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456-438: A track by Melbourne singer-songwriter Giles Field called "I Can't Hear You, We're Breaking Up" which was released in late 2011. She also has a credit as co-writer on the song. Between 2011 and 2013, Barnett was a member of Australian psych-country band Immigrant Union , a musical project founded by Brent DeBoer (of The Dandy Warhols ) and Bob Harrow. Along with sharing vocal duties, Barnett predominantly played slide guitar and

494-514: Is an annual award of $ 30,000 given to an Australian band or solo artist in recognition of the merit of an album released during the year of award. The commenced in 2005. The J Awards are an annual series of Australian music awards that were established by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation 's youth-focused radio station Triple J . They commenced in 2005. The Libera Awards are an annual awards ceremony presented by

532-646: Is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector. The APRA Awards are presented annually from 1982 by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), "honouring composers and songwriters". The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music . Barnett has won 6 ARIA Music Awards from 20 nominations. The Australian Music Prize (the AMP)

570-522: Is on the band's second studio album, Anyway . DeBoer played drums on Barnett's first EP , I've Got a Friend called Emily Ferris . It appeared in 2012 on Barnett's own label, Milk! Records . In 2013, Barnett played lead guitar on Jen Cloher 's third studio album, In Blood Memory , which was also released on Milk! Records . Following the release of her first EP, Barnett signed to Marathon Artists (via its imprint House Anxiety). In August 2013, Marathon Artists released The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas ,

608-654: The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) to celebrate excellence i independent music. The Music Victoria Awards , are an annual awards night celebrating Victorian music. They commenced in 2005. The National Live Music Awards (NLMAs) are a broad recognition of Australia's diverse live industry, celebrating the success of the Australian live scene. The awards commenced in 2016. The Rolling Stone Australia Awards are awarded annually in January or February by

646-571: The Australian edition of Rolling Stone magazine for outstanding contributions to popular culture in the previous year. Delivered since 2010, the GAFFA Awards (Swedish: GAFFA Priset) are a Swedish award that rewards popular music awarded by the magazine of the same name. Deadpan The term deadpan first emerged early in the 20th century, as a compound word (sometimes spelled as two words) combining "dead" and "pan" (a slang term for

684-761: The 1928 article in the Times . The usage of deadpan as a verb ("to speak, act, or utter in a deadpan manner; to maintain a dead pan") is recorded at least as far back as 1942. The English music hall comedian T. W. Barrett , working in the 1880s and 1890s, is credited with being the first to perform in a deadpan manner, standing completely still and without a smile. Early in his vaudeville days, Buster Keaton developed his deadpan expression. Keaton realised that audiences responded better to his stony expression than when he smiled, and he carried this style into his silent film career. The 1928 Vitaphone short film The Beau Brummels , with vaudeville comics Al Shaw and Sam Lee,

722-613: The Courtney Barnetts. In August 2015, Barnett's UK label, Marathon Artists, in partnership with Mom + Pop Music and Milk! Records , launched a global guerilla campaign for the release of her single "Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go to the Party". Billboards and posters bearing the song's title went up in London, New York, Los Angeles, Melbourne and Sydney. The campaign garnered a lot of interest online and across social media and culminated in

760-462: The Milk! Records journey, it wouldn't be the same without you." The final album released on the label was Barnett's instrumental album End of The Day released on 8 September 2023. It features 17 tracks written to score the 2022 documentary Anonymous Club . The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known informally as AIR Awards ) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate

798-977: The TV show Brooklyn Nine-Nine , Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing in Friends , Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson and Aubrey Plaza as April Ludgate in Parks and Recreation , Jennette McCurdy as Sam Puckett in iCarly , and Louis C.K. in Louie . Another example is the comedy of Steven Wright . Deadpan delivery runs throughout British humour . In television sitcoms, John Cleese as Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers and Rowan Atkinson as Edmund Blackadder in Blackadder are both frustrated figures who display little facial expression in their put-downs. Atkinson also plays authority figures (especially priests) while speaking absurd lines with

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836-634: The Year . How to Carve a Carrot into a Rose was released on a limited run by Milk! Records as a standalone EP in October 2013. Marathon Artists and House Anxiety partnered with Mom + Pop Music for the U.S. release of The Double EP in 2014. Milk! Records released a compilation EP, A Pair of Pears (with Shadows) , on 10" white vinyl in September 2014, following a crowd-sourcing campaign in July that year. The EP included

874-474: The band as the "CB3" on her Facebook page. The CB3 moniker features prominently on drummer Dave Mudie's bass drum. Barnett was nominated in eight categories at the ARIA Music Awards of 2015 and won four trophies: Breakthrough Artist , Best Female Artist , Best Independent Release and Best Cover Art for Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit . At the end of 2015, Barnett was nominated for

912-468: The collaborative album Lotta Sea Lice , released via Matador Records , Marathon Artists and Milk! Records on October 13. Some of the album collaborators include Stella Mozgawa , Mick Harvey and the Dirty Three 's Mick Turner and Jim White . The lead single "Over Everything" was released on August 30, 2017, accompanied by the music video directed by Danny Cohen. "Over Everything" initially sparked

950-399: The comedian Sacha Baron Cohen interacts with unsuspecting subjects not realising they have been set up for self-revealing ridicule; on this The Observer states, "his career has been built on winding people up, while keeping a deadpan face." Dry humour is often confused with highbrow or egghead humour, because the humour in dry humour does not exist in the words or delivery. Instead,

988-610: The end of 2023, after 12 years. The final album released on the label is the instrumental End of the Day , released on 8 September 2023. The album features 17 tracks written to score the 2021 documentary, Anonymous Club . Barnett plays left-handed, using mostly left-handed guitars with standard tuning and string order for left-handed players (low strings at the top, high strings at the bottom). She occasionally plays right-handed guitars flipped upside down, but does not prefer it. She learned to play on acoustic guitars, and developed her own method of fingerstyle guitar because she disliked

1026-407: The face). It appeared in print as early as 1915, in an article about a former baseball player named Gene Woodburn written by his former manager Roger Bresnahan . Bresnahan described how Woodburn used his skill as a ventriloquist to make his manager and others think they were being heckled from the stands. Woodburn, wrote Bresnahan, "had a trick of what the actors call 'the dead pan.' He never cracked

1064-409: The guitars Barnett has used for performance and recording are a Harmony H59 and a number of Fenders , including Jaguars , Stratocasters , and Telecasters , which she strings with Ernie Ball Power Slinky strings in the 0.011–0.048 gauge. She plays through Fender Hot Rod Deville and Fender Deluxe amplifiers, with effects pedals including a Fulltone OCD overdrive pedal, a "cheap delay pedal", and

1102-518: The listener must look for humour in the contradiction between words, delivery and context . Failure to include the context or to identify the contradiction results in the listener finding the dry humour unfunny. However, the term "deadpan" itself actually refers only to the method of delivery. Milk! Records Milk! Records was an Australian record label founded in 2012 by musicians Jen Cloher and Courtney Barnett . In early 2019, Tom Larnach-Jones previously of Trifekta Records took over

1140-549: The notoriously shy [Barnett] amidst her significant rise to fame" is in the works after receiving $ 2.5 million in funding from Screen Australia . On 7 July 2021, Barnett released "Rae Street", the lead single from her third studio album— Things Take Time, Take Time —which was released on 12 November 2021. On 3 July 2022, Barnett supported the Rolling Stones at their concert at Hyde Park in London, UK. In July 2023, Barnett confirmed Milk! Records will be disestablished at

1178-690: The pair's collaboration, after Philadelphia-based Vile wrote the song with the Melbourne-based Barnett's voice in mind. The second single "Continental Breakfast" was released on 26 September 2017. In June 2017 Vile and Barnett announced a North American tour. The duo was backed by the Sea Lice, a band featuring Janet Weiss ( Sleater-Kinney , Wild Flag ), Rob Laakso (The Violators, Swirlies , Mice Parade ), Stella Mozgawa ( Warpaint ), and Katie Harkin ( Sky Larkin , touring member of Sleater-Kinney and Wild Beasts ). On 12 February 2018, Barnett teased

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1216-428: The role of label manager. In July 2023, Barnett confirmed Milk! Records will be disestablished at the end of 2023, after 12 years. Barnett said about the decision to close Milk! Records in an interview with The Guardian , saying, "It has been one of the great honours of my life to be a part of this incredible community and to work alongside so many amazing artists. Thank you to every single person who has been part of

1254-451: The sound of a pick ; she later transferred this playing style to the electric guitar. She is capable of using a pick and claims she could probably play better with one, but prefers to play using her fingers, strumming with both her thumb and index finger on rhythm parts and using her index finger where she would otherwise use a pick for lead parts. She prefers to play in standard tuning , but has used open G tuning for slide guitar . Among

1292-507: Was eventually released on 18 May 2018 and titled Tell Me How You Really Feel . The album dealt, in part, with Barnett's thoughts about isolation in the social media age. "City Looks Pretty" was featured on the soundtrack of the video game FIFA 19 . In 2019, Barnett was added to the bill of Woodstock 50 , but the festival was cancelled in May. In December 2020, NME reported that a documentary titled Anonymous Club exploring "the inner life of

1330-611: Was performed entirely in deadpan. The 1980 film Airplane! was performed almost entirely in deadpan; it helped relaunch the career of one of its supporting actors, Leslie Nielsen , who transformed into a prolific deadpan comic after the film. Actor and comedian Bill Murray is known for his deadpan delivery. Many popular American sitcoms use deadpan expressions to deliver dry humour, including Curb Your Enthusiasm , Arrested Development , and My Name Is Earl . More recent examples are Andre Braugher as Captain Raymond Holt from

1368-496: Was released in 2015 to widespread acclaim. At the 2015 ARIA Music Awards , she won four awards from eight nominations. She was nominated for Best New Artist at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards and International Female Solo Artist at the 2016 Brit Awards . She released Lotta Sea Lice , a collaborative album with Kurt Vile , in 2017. She released her second album, Tell Me How You Really Feel , to further acclaim in 2018. Barnett's third studio album— Things Take Time, Take Time —

1406-751: Was released in November 2021. Courtney Melba Barnett was born in Sydney on 3 November 1987. She was given her middle name after opera singer Nellie Melba . She grew up in Sydney's Northern Beaches area. Her mother was a ballerina. When she was 16, her family moved to Hobart . She attended St Michael's Collegiate School and the Tasmanian School of Art . Having grown up listening to American bands, she discovered Australian singer-songwriters Darren Hanlon and Dan Kelly , who inspired her to start writing songs. While pursuing

1444-554: Was released worldwide via Milk! Records (Australia), and Mom + Pop Music (US) on 23 March 2015, and was accompanied by tours in the UK and Europe, America, and Australasia. Sometimes I Sit and Think was met with critical acclaim, The Times , Pitchfork and the Chicago Tribune . Up until the release of Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit , Courtney Barnett, Bones Sloane, and Dave Mudie toured as Courtney Barnett and

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