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Loene Carmen (born in 1970 Adelaide, Australia) is an Australian singer/songwriter and actress.
Background
Carmen's father is rock/jazz/blues pianist Peter Head. Head played piano on It Walks Like Love and in several of Carmen's former bands, including acting as musical director for country revue act Honky Tonk Angels, which also featured Justine Clarke and Noah Taylor.
As a teenager, Carmen was discovered working in a Kings Cross pizza bar and cast in John Duigan's The Year My Voice Broke (1987) for which she was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Best Actress award. Other notable roles include Sallie-Anne Huckstepp in the docudrama Blue Murder and Christine in Alkinos Tsilimidos' haunting drama Tom White, for which she also received nominations for Australian Film Institute Best Supporting Actress and IF Best Actress.
After performing in a variety of bands since the early 1990s, Carmen went solo in 2002.
Attributes
Carmen has released four albums to date (2011), most recently It Walks Like Love (Inertia) on 5 December 2009, hailed as "...a truly outstanding record and, with it, Loene Carmen has not only created her finest piece of work to date, but also one of the albums of the year."
The album was produced by Burke Reid and with guitarist Brock Fitzgerald and drummer Samuel Pearton from The Scare and Sam Worrad from The Holy Soul on bass. Special guests include Jed Kurzel (Mess Hall) on duet "Oh Apollo!", Peter Head on piano with Tex Perkins and Holiday Sidewinder also making an appearance on backing vocals. Her third album Rock'n'Roll Tears, co written and recorded with Jed Kurzel and Sam Worrad, attracted standout reviews. In 2004, Slight Delay was released to minor critical acclaim on Reverberation.
Tracks, Nashville High and Rock n Roll Tears were featured tracks on the Australian series Love My Way. "Born Funky Born Free" was featured in the film Fat Pizza.
In March 2010 Carmen released mini album Leave It At The Door, a home recorded collaboration with "the mysterious Krystina" under the moniker "T: Lo" in 2003.
In December 2011 she released limited edition mini album "Hard Candy Christmas" under the name Sweet Carmo - featuring solo cover versions of country classics by artists such as Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette.
January 2012 saw the launch of "Loene Carmen's Parallel Universe", a lounge room variety show filmed for the internet.
Carmen performs with a rotating line-up of musicians that has included Mess Hall, Warren Ellis and Jim White (Dirty Three) and "X"'s Cathy Green), She has toured solo opening for Gareth Liddiard (The Drones) and Renee Geyer in Australia and Mick Harvey in Europe. She showcased solo at SxSW in 2009.
She has contributed music writing to anthologies Meanjin on Rock 'n' Roll: All Yesterday's Parties and Your Mother Would be Proud: True Tales of Mayhem and Misadventure (edited by Jenny Valentish & Tamara Sheward) and is published in the 2011 "Women Of Letters" collection (curated by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire).
Guest artist
The Holy Soul: Damn You, Ra 2009The Mess Hall: Devils Elbow 2007'Various Artists: 'Tribute to Rowland S. Howard 2007The Wallbangers: 4 track ep (Bang!) 2007Stardust Five: Stardust Five 2006Mick Harvey: Pink Elephants 1997Mick Harvey: Intoxicated Man 1995The Stepfords: Gas Food and You 1994Cruel Sea: Three Legged Dog 1994Selected filmography
Red Dog 2011Tom White 2004Strange Planet 1999Blue Murder 1995The Nostradamus Kid 1993The Year My Voice Broke 1987Music videos
Mimic The Rain 2009Nashville High 2006The Things That Matter 2004My Friends Call Me Foxy 2002Band history
Slow Hand (c. 2000 – 2005)Loene Carmen Experience (c. 2000)Automatic Cherry (c. 1995 – 1998)The Charismatics (c. 1996 -1998)White Trash Mamas (c. 1993 – 1995)HonkyTonk Angels (c. 1991–1993)Miscellaneous
Carmen has two sons, Chester Van (b. 2011) and Dutch Bon (b. 2007) by her partner, actor Aden Young and a daughter, Holiday Sidewinder (b. 1990).
Young directed the music video for "Nashville High" and 'meticulously edited' Carmen's "Mimic The Rain" clip. Carmen co-composed the score for Young's short film The Rose of Ba Ziz, as well as appearing in it.
Brother, Joshua Beagley, is also a musician, leader of successful 1990s Sydney pop funk band Swoop and currently heads disco house act Confection and Professor Groove and The Booty Affair.
