The Artist

A master storyteller and poet of the everyday, Paul Kelly has spent four decades chronicling the Australian experience in song — its humour, heartbreak, beauty, and contradictions. From pubs and poetry to politics and prayer, his writing finds truth in the ordinary and turns it into something extraordinary. Kelly’s gift lies in his simplicity: words that feel lived-in, melodies that feel inevitable, and a voice that has only grown more resonant with time.

The Record

Recorded over two weeks in early 1985, Post marked the quiet beginning of Kelly’s remarkable run. Written after the collapse of his first band and his move from Melbourne to Sydney, it’s a stark, unvarnished album — part confessional, part rebirth. There’s no band bravado here, just stories, scars, and a handful of friends who still believed. With songs like ‘From St Kilda to Kings Cross’ and ‘Adelaide’, Post captures an artist finding his footing and, in doing so, finding his voice — intimate, unflinching, and unmistakably his own.