‘I got sick of talking about myself’: Spacey Jane is back with music for the Covid generation

Now on their second album, Western Australia’s indie rockers want young people to know that someone out there understands them

From under a mop of curls, Caleb Harper – Spacey Jane frontman, guitarist and songwriter – looks every part the disaffected Gen Z idol. But under the surface, and on songs like their mega-hit Booster Seat, he excavates specific and devastating memories of a life lived under a cloud of anxiety and depression.

“There’s a lot of theatre around what we do – that sort of smoke and mirrors and lights,” Harper says from his home in Perth, where he’s settling back in after six months away, including a 17-date tour in Europe and the UK – the longest he’s ever spent away from the west coast. “But it’s hard to be enigmatic and also make the music that we make.

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