Booking Courtney Barnett

Courtney Barnett Biography

The Australian musician Courtney Barnett was born in 1987 in Pittwater, and grew up in the area of Sydney. As a teenager, Barnett attended the Tasmanian School of Art, and by the time she was in her early twenties, she’d joined her first band, Rapid Transit. From there she went on to perform with Immigrant Union, but in 2013, Barnett signed as a solo artist to Marathon Artists and entered the studio to prepare for her solo debut.


Barnett’s debut arrived in the form of A Sea of Split Peas, a Double EP which featured the single “ Avant Gardener.” The song rose to the top of the charts, earning Courtney additional critical acclaim from such publications as Q Magazine, Stereogum, and Pitchfork Media. The song “History Eraser” fared even better, earning Barnett a nomination for APRA Song of the Year.


In 2015, Courtney Barnett burst onto the mainstream international scene with the release of her debut solo album, Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit. The album earned her worldwide acclaim, with the Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, and Rolling Stone all citing Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit as one of the best of the year. The album rose into the top five on the Australian charts and charted in the top forty internationally, sweeping the ARIA Music Awards with four wins in the categories of Breakthrough Artist, Best Cover Art, Best Independent Release, and Best Female Artist.


Courtney Barnett is a brand new artist on a quick rise, and definitely one to watch in the coming years. Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit was most recently nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist and also earned Barnett a BRIT Award for International Female Solo Artist.