#1 Dads

Many of us can link a certain album to pivotal moments in our lives. Whether it’s the first record you bought with your own money, the chord you first learnt to play on guitar, the song that soundtracked your first kiss, the album that got you those awkward and painful pubescent years or the one […]

This weekend’s Isol-Aid is a special Record Store Day edition. To get into ~the spirit~ they’ve partnered with a few Aussie record stores to help hand select the lineup. And what a good job they’ve done. Melbourne’s Northside Records and Rocksteady Records, Brisbane’s Jet Black Cat Music, and Freo’s Mills Records are each partnering with […]

Big Scary’s Tom Iansek has announced his first tour of the country in five years as part of his #1 Dads solo project, celebrating the launch of latest album Golden Repair with Australian dates throughout June and July. Gretta Ray, Cool Sounds and Moreton will serve as special guests on the tour, with exact lineups varying in […]

Big Scary’s Tom Iansek conceived #1 Dads as a curious solo side-project, only for it to become an enduring phenomenon. He’s now made as many #1 Dads albums as Big Scary, with Golden Repair his third – and first since 2014’s About Face. In between, Iansek and his Big Scary cohort, Joanna Syme, promoted Animal. […]

Tom Iansek’s much loved side project – one of them, at least – #1 Dads has finally announced a brand new album, titled Golden Repair. On top of the album announcement, there’s also the arrival of another #1 Dads single for us to sink our teeth into – the indie-pop piano ballad ‘Freedom Fighter’. “An interesting […]

It’s been almost five years since Tom Iansek’s side project #1 Dads released the stellar About Face, but now the Big Scary/No Mono genius has announced the project’s return with new single ‘Another Day’. According to Iansek in a statement, ‘Another Day’ is “like a little ray of light in a dark place”. He’s also dropped […]


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