The Sunny Cowgirls and special guests Hurricane Fall will take to the stage for the inaugural Iveco NCHA Rock The Futurity Live at the Australian Equine and Livestock Events Centre to show off the local talent the region has produced and is home to.

Sophie Clabburn of the Sunny Cowgirls calls Gunnedah home and Hurricane Fall, is comprised of Tamworth-born-and-raised musicians who now live in Newcastle.

Clabburn said it was the first time the sister duo would play AELEC.

“The last time I was there was for the Futurity a couple of years ago to compete in the celebrity cutting horse challenge,” she said.

“It was heaps of fun.”

It will be a rare treat for the region as the Sunny Cowgirls, Celeste and Sophie, live at either side of the country, with Celeste now in Perth.

It’s an exciting time for fans of the Sunny Cowgirls as they started recording their new album last Sunday.

“This will be our seventh studio album and we’ve been in the industry for 11 years,” Clabburn said.

The master storytellers will record with Golden Guitar and ARIA award-winning producer Matt Fell in Sydney.

“It’s a first-time thing for us, but we wanted to do something different,” Clabburn said.

“We are definitely going back to our roots on this album and going back to the early days. We tried to do something different last time, but if fans like original Sunny Cowgirls, then they will like this.”

The sisters have been writing songs separately and the song-writing credits will be split down the middle.

“It’s easy to get caught up in things we are listening to, and our style has changed a little bit from growing up and listening to different stuff, but we listened to our first couple of albums when we used to sing about living on a farm and b&s balls and decided to go back to that,” Clabburn said.

“We’ve just been doing what we normally do, nights out at the pub with our mates and there are always funny stories there.”

Although Sophie has married Gunnedah man Michael Casey in the past 12 months, she assured fans there wouldn’t be any soppy love songs.

“One of the songs is called My Little Mate, but it’s not too soppy,” she said.

Tomorrow night, Hurricane Fall – Jesse Vee, Pepper Deroy on bass, lead guitarist Jimmy Hick, and Lachlan ‘Dusty’ Coffey on skins and percussion – will show off their country rock style. 

“We’re all extroverts, and we all love to perform,” Hick said.

“If we could perform all day, every day, we would. After our first show together, we just said, this  works. We feel more comfortable in front of 10,000 people than we do just sitting in our lounge room.”