Australian singer-songwriter Francis Tait debuted in 2020 with a tape titled Live at the Old Bar, featuring six live songs that we would later come to know as gems from his band Quality Used Cars. With three amazing studio albums under his belt (read our review of 2025’s One Hundred Million), he returned exactly six years later—on ‘Gravy Day’—to the same spot to record Volume 2. Folk-tinged, but unconventional.

You’ll hear intimate versions of eight choice cuts from those LPs, stripped back and heartfelt. Though I wasn’t there (as a fan, I would have really loved that), this release paints a clear picture of what the night must have felt like. Just an acoustic guitar, that distinctive voice, and keen wit are enough to command the room, drawing listeners into stories that land somewhere between a laugh and a tear.

Live at the Old Bar 2—recorded on December 21, 2025 by Erik Scerba—is out now digitally and on limited edition cassette via Spoilsport Records.

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