The Pleasures are Catherine Britt and Lachlan Bryan. It’s a collaboration that began with a few late-night texts and quickly spiralled into a feverish week of writing and recording in Melbourne. Fast forward four years and the band has toured already graced big festival stages, toured the USA and Europe and scored themselves five Golden Guitar Nominations.

Catherine and Lachlan have vastly different musical backstories. Country-loving parents steered Catherine towards Hank Williams and Jimmie Rogers, and by the time she was 16 the twang of her debut record had reached the ears of Sir Elton John. The rock legend not only decided to record a duet with the young singer, but also introduced her to RCA Records in Nashville, to whom she was immediately signed. Over the next decade she toured America and the world with the likes of Chris Isaak, Dolly Parton, Brooks and Dunn, Alan Jackson and Kenny Chesney and won the CMA International Artist of the Year Award, before returning to Australia where she not only got married and had children, but also fought and defeated breast cancer. 

Meanwhile Lachlan, who also grew up around music, was forging a respected career on the sticky carpets of the Melbourne rock’n’roll and alt-country scenes, earning a reputation as a songwriter’s-songwriter and witty storyteller with his band of misfits The Wildes. He and the band began to make international dive-bar tours – mostly in the UK and USA. It was on one such escapade that Lachlan met Catherine (in Austin, Texas, no-less) and a drunken, debaucherous night spawned a now decade-long friendship of sibling-like proportions.

"Lachlan and I have always clicked in life and in song” explains Catherine, “and since we first met,we’ve had an unspoken understanding and respect for one another”. 

A musical partnership was, perhaps, inevitable – but neither party anticipated the ease with which they would write and work together – supported by the stellar rhythm section of Catherine’s new husband Brad Bergen on drums and Lachlan’s right-hand-Wilde Damian Cafarella on bass.

Debut record The Beginning of the End appeared to pull together the best elements of both Lachlan and Catherine’s worlds, blending rock’n’roll and classic country in a manner that led the folks at Apple music to describe The Pleasures as “a match made in Americana heaven”. The album catapaulted the band on to major festival stages across Australia, earned them official showcases at both Folk Alliance and AMERICANAFEST in the US, scored debut UK appearances at Maverick Festival and Shrewsbury Folk Festival and enabled a headline tour of Scandinavia – all in 2024. 

In just three short years The Pleasures have been nominated for three Australian Country Music Awards (Golden Guitars) and reached the Top 10 of the Australian Albums Chart AND Top 40 in the Americana Association Official Albums Chart (the latter thanks to widespread support across the USA’s vast Americana radio network). 

Now The Pleasures are back with album number 2 – the provocatively titled Enemy Of My Enemy. The new collection of songs bristles with fuzzy but instantly-memorable guitar riffs, soulful basslines, Gospel-tinged Hammond organ and joyous melodic hooks. Lyrically, they swing wildly from mischief and mayhem to heartbreak and true romance. 

Management: Tracey Griffiths - Kick Music  | (P) +61 (0) 2 9543 3229 | (e) tracey@kickmusic.com.au

Bookings (Australia): Tracey Griffiths - Kick Music  | (P) +61 (0) 2 9543 3229 | (e) tracey@kickmusic.com.au

Bookings (UK): Bob Paterson | BPA Live | (P) +44 (0)7946 038634 | (E) bp@bpa-live.com

USA Publicity: Brandy Reed - brandy@rpr-media.com 

Radio Promotion: Angela Backstrom - angelabackstrompromo@gmail.com

Australian Publicity: Jo Corbett - jocorbettpublicity@gmail.com

UK Publicity: BLOODY GREAT PR - info@bloodygreatpr.com (ask for LOUDON)