Hugo Race is a prolific and visionary performer. A founding member of Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds and the seminal Australian 80s cult band The Wreckery, Hugo has released 20 albums and collaborated with artists from Sao Paolo to Rome, Berlin, London, Tucson, Brussels, Warsaw, Mali, Africa and beyond. Born in Melbourne, Hugo has spent most of the last 25 years living in Italy, France, Germany, UK and the USA.

Hugo Race performs in many guises. His latest Fatalists offering, We Never Had Control, is a raw and lyrically driven album centred around Hugo’s deep, soulful vocals often compared to artists like Mark Lanegan and Leonard Cohen.
With his international True Spirit collective he has produced 14 Hugo Race & True Spirit albums. Various collaborations span another ten or more albums, spread over several continents including his USA project Dirtmusic (their ‘BKO’ album, recorded in Bamako, Africa, a cross-cultural collaboration with the Malian Tuareg group Tamikrest, cited as one of the best albums of 2010), the French-American band Lilium, the Brazilian project Moses Complex, the London-based Pantaleimon, the Berlin-based Rogall’s Electric Circus Sideshow, the Sicilian band Sepiatone, the European ‘supergroup’ Songs With Other Strangers with PJ Harvey, producer John Parish, and the Italian multimedia project Merola Matrix.

Hugo returns to Sydney in solo mode for an intimate show at Camelot Lounge performing songs from his entire career.
with special guests.