Raised in equal parts by urban Japan and rural Australia, Rhi Miles is an independent songwriter with a penchant for overthinking and oversharing. She has spent the last decade poking about Sydney’s Inner West, writing songs about its cafes and performing in its cranniest of nooks. She is happiest when bouncing ideas off friends, and collaborators over the years have been as varied as Abigail Wighton, Albany and her bandmates in indie-pop-rock group Birthday Project. Apparently she’s systematically working her way through the alphabet.

Years of ferreting through her father’s CD collection has led Rhi to take notes from the likes of Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell and Steely Dan. She is always experimenting, learning to be creative with what she’s got, as she carves out her own brand of folk rock. Sometimes it’s too nostalgic for its own good, and always it is honest.

Bertie Wooster once observed songwriters to be “among the most cheery of my acquaintances, ready of smile and full of merry quips and so forth. But directly they put pen to paper they never fail to take the dark view.” Nothing could be truer. Rhi often writes from a place of melancholy, but will be the first to laugh at herself over it.

Rhi Miles is currently joined on stage and in studio by a trio: Tim, Tim and Andre. She lives in Sydney with her 2 guitars, 2 basses and a drum kit.

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