Compass Bros Records

25/11/2024

"A writer of songs that exist far beyond any reachable stratosphere for us earthly songwriters. An artist (and human) of unwavering integrity and bravery, yet humble and genuine all at once." Shane Nicholson

19/11/2024

Congratulations to our brilliant artists Michael Waugh, Colin Buchanan and Raechel Whitchurch for your well deserved nominations in the 2025 CMAA Golden Guitar Awards. It's an honour to work with you and a real thrill to see your extraordinary artistry and songwriting recognised in this way. Thanks also to Stuart Coupe, Kaz Waters at Red Rebel Music and Jules Delemare Wildheart Publicity for your work with Michael, Kaz at Red Rebel Music for your work with Bucko and Savannah Lee for your work with Raechel.

31/10/2024

Today we're honoured to be releasing Sara Storer's extraordinary new single 'Layers', a beautifully crafted piece of country pop that speaks to the harm inflicted on teenagers by social media. Sara is an exceptional and unique artist and writer who has been telling our stories with great insight and eloquence since the release of her debut album 'Buffalo Bill' in 2000. Twenty Two Golden Guitars and and ARIA award later she is as fresh and insightful as ever on this wonderful new song, written with and produced by the great Matt Fell.

Have a listen here lnk.to/S.S.Layers

05/09/2024

My Compass Bros Records sister-in-music, Camille Trail, and I will be playing The Citadel Murwillumbah Sunday 29th September 3pm. Tix through my website (see link below). Looking forward to it!

03/07/2024

Very excited to announce the first ever UK tour for with our buddy, the extremely talented . Thanks for all of your hard work on this!

03/06/2024

Congratulations to Raechel Whitchurch for the #1 debut of her extraordinary album 'What A Time To Be Alive' on the ARIA Australian Country Albums chart this week. It is also the highest debuting album by any Australian artist in any genre.

In his review of the album Bernard Zuel said of the title track... "Her second album is centred by a moment of the starkest grief, a song of utter devastation that is both irresistible to hear and almost impossible to listen to – impossible to listen to without being moved, probably to tears every time. I’m not sure how many times I have played this song now, though it would be comfortably more than 30, and I am yet to hear it without a gut punch."

22/03/2024

Raechel Whitchurch is a lot of things - wife, mother, friend, songwriter, agent and a recording artist who's single 'Back Where I Belong' is #11 on the Countrytown Hot 50 this week. And she's really good at all of them. Congratulations on a beautiful song Raech!

15/12/2023

Independent playlist curators play an important role in helping emerging artists reach new audiences around the world and the support for Camille Trail's 'twenties' is evidence of this. 20 plus indie playlist curators are supporting this extraordinary song so far. Thank you Vanitas Music and Adam Hood for these recent playlist adds. Please seek out and follow these beautiful chill playlists.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3vrDUCknwHEtNetOS0HMpL?si=1976b60314464ec1

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/56bzac0pOgPgPsGVocWDuz?si=4f15b0fe18bb42a1

11/12/2023

A big thank you to 91.9 SEA FM Sunshine Coast for supporting local talent by adding the Camille Trail ear worm 'Gotta Get To Know You' to full rotation!

https://lnk.to/CTGottaGetToKnowYou

07/09/2023

Thank you Folk Radio UK for premiering the powerful new Michael Waugh video WE ARE HERE.

On his latest single, ‘We Are Here‘, Michael Waugh turns to the power of storytelling, delivering an anthemic, rousing folk song that praises heroes, all of whom are gay pioneers – “I wanted to talk about the history of gay men, and to include myself as a point on that timeline. I also wanted to let the next generation know that we are here, we are waiting to be their community, and that they are loved.“

https://www.folkradio.co.uk/2023/09/video-premiere-michael-waugh-we-are-here/?fbclid=IwAR3bOzvkGShDf0zwgAx4iRA6ZcDP1BNRgrZLSvnn3y771ZxVL9GlDDlWXt0

For his latest single, ‘We Are Here’, Michael Waugh turns to the power of storytelling, delivering an anthemic, rousing folk song that praises heroes, all of whom are gay pioneers.

17/08/2023

Congratulations to Camille Trail and Raechel Whitchurch for being selected to showcase at Your Roots Are Showing in Ireland next January!

16/05/2023

Congratulations on your nomination for the 2024 APRA Professional Development Awards and thank you to APRA/AMCOS for your ongoing support of our amazing songwriters.

14/04/2023

Out today! A stunning version of the Jackson Browne classic 'These Days' by Charm of Finches & Riley Catherall.

lnk.to/RWCOFTheseDays

09/03/2023

https://lnk.to/RWImNotCool

One of the coolest people around just released a song called I'm Not Cool. Have a listen. It's cool.

20/01/2023

A massive congratulations to Duncan Toombs and Storer respectively for their impressive ARIA sales chart debuts this week.

Duncan's debut album Steel on Steel was the highest selling debut album overall. His ARIA chart positions are...

#1 Australian Artists Country Albums
#2 Australian Artists Albums (all genres)
#5 Country Albums
#30 Top 100 Albums (all genres)

Storer also debuted strongly...

#2 Australian Artists Country Albums
#5 Australian Artists Albums (all genres)
#7 Country Albums
#56 Top 100 Albums (all genres)

16/12/2022

On January 13 we're releasing STORER, an extraordinary collaboration between Sara Storer & her brother Greg Storer. It's likely that you're aware of Greg's masterful writing and duets with Sara over the years but you may not be so familiar with an outstanding album that Greg released in 2010 called Backwater. It's highly worthy of a listen.

Listen here https://compassbros.com.au/portfolio-posts/greg-storer-backwater/