The Melbourne band are playing at the Welder’s Dog on Tuesday night, from 7pm with pecial guest Gretta Ziller, then the following day they have a show with Shanley Del at North Tamworth Bowling Club from 2pm.

They will be playing the songs from the forthcoming album, titled Some Girls (Quite) Like Country Music, which will be released on February 9.

“We took just about the whole year to make it, we did it slowly and spent a lot of time on it, and we’re extremely happy and excited about it,” Bryan said.

“We’ve always been a bit of a story-telling band, but we’ve taken that a bit further on this album.

“I realised when I had to type up the lyrics for the liner notes - there’s a lot of words. They’re pretty adult songs,” he said.

It includes a story about a guy having a midlife crisis, which Bryan said was based on a few people he knew in the music business.

Other topics in the songs include adultery, and a post apocalyptic view of the world.

“It’s pretty heavy for country music, but there’s a little bit of romance in there as well, and some tragedy, there’s missing persons, the whole works.”

Three band members played all the instruments on the album, with the only exception John Bedggood from The Wilson Pickers who played fiddle on one track.

“We like to think that we usually leave the dirt on when we record, we make it sound live and it’s all about the feel, and this time around it’s even more so, we haven’t let it get too polished,” Bryan said.