In the Chair is a regular feature on Eventalaide, highlighting artists from across Australia and occasionally overseas. Everyone gets the same questions. It is just meant to be a bit of fun so please treat it as such.
Questions by Geoff Jenke
A mother to three children, four sheep, three ducks and three chickens, when Nuria isn’t weaving musical magic, she can be found in the garden, writing novels, or working part time as a GP. And while her idyllic surrounds growing up in Tasmania’s Huon Valley undoubtedly feed into her entirely immersive creations, Nuria is first and foremost a realist, a straight-shooter, and, most resoundingly, a lover of music.
Nuria concludes, “I’m just a slightly fucked up normal person (isn’t that the very definition of normal?). I’m no teenage pop princess and there’s nothing particularly cool about me but I’ll tell it straight and I’m going to keep making music because it’s the language of my heart”.
Releasing her debut full length album Alive in 2020, and a follow up in Silver in 2021, Nuria’s free-spirited and finely-honed sonic wiles have seen her gain airplay on ABC and community radio across Australia, while also snagging attention from local and international audiences along the way. Uplifting, exciting and always surging with authentic momentum, Nuria has also had singles from her debut album feature in the Top 10 of the 2020 Australian Songwriters, as well as songs also previously selected in the International Unsigned Only competition semi-finals.
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Name: Anna Maynard
Alias: Nuria
In less than 50 words
describe your music, your band and yourself:
Tasmanian-grown
indie-pop medical-mum songstress weaves self-reflection into banging tunes. 34
sweet years of life lived, misadventures, mended and broken hearts provide a
stunningly rich tapestry of inspiration to draw from.
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What was the first record
you bought with your own money and where from?
Shania
Twain! ‘Man I feel like a woman’. I can still remember holding it in my hand on
the bus ride home. So good.
80’s or 90’s Music:
90’s
all the way!
What music are currently
listening to?
Shania
Twain. You reminded me. Literally banging out right now.
The Best live artist/band
you’ve seen:
The
Herd. Such a hip hop fan.
Your “In the mood for
love” song:
Marvin
Gaye – ‘Sexual Healing’ – absolute tune.
Your favourite Saturday
night party record?
‘The
Boys of Summer’ DJ Sammy. (don’t tease)
Your favourite Sunday
morning chill out record?
Norah
Jones ‘Sunrise’
Which song do you wish you
had written?
‘Hallelujah’
like everyone else in the world
Roger Daltry once said
“Rock N Roll has no future”. Do you agree with him?
Not
my genre so I don’t really know.
Vinyl, CD or Streaming?
Tape.
Remember the days of hitting the red button when the radio played your
favourite song and there you had it? Ready to play on your Walkman? There was
no time of greater appreciation of music. It’s all at our fingertips now and
the magic is gone. The good old days!
If you could record or
play live with any artist (dead or alive), who would it be?
Chris
Isaak. You’ve got me thinking about him now with his version of ‘Hallelujah’.
Though I’m not sure about playing with him. I think I might just lie on the
couch and he can sing me ‘Wicked Game’ and I will just melt into the chemistry
of sound.
What is the most useless
talent you have?
I can
make my fingers look like they’re plaited.
Your finest recorded
moment?
When
my three-year-old interrupted a vocal take with ‘mum I need to poo’
Who is your musical hero
and what one question would you ask them?
Jack
Johnson. ‘Would you like to be my boyfriend?’ Fuck. What a babe. (I’m sure my
husband would understand if he said yes)
Dying, peacefully on your
death bed, what song would you like to hear?
‘Time
to Say Goodbye’ Andrea Bocelli
Stuck on a desert island
for a year and can only take three albums. What would they be?
Amy
Shark – Love Monster.
Missy Higgins – The Sound of White.
Shania Twain – Come on Over (for old time’s sake)
Favourite all time movie:
‘About
Time’
If you drove an ice cream
van, what music would you play?
‘You’re
still the One’ (Yeah. I’m still listening to Shania Twain. Absolute hit)
Best show you have ever
played in your career:
When
I supported Billy Eilish that one time. Remember? Oh, maybe you missed it. Too
bad. Juicy Rump pup gig then I suppose.
Any backstage incident
that makes you laugh?
When
I was performing in Mamma Mia and didn’t have time to zip up my onesey and had
to dance a whole song without turning around and exposing my spanks
Neil Young or Paul
McCartney?
Indifferent.
You choose. (Always has to be Neil – Geoff)
Who is the nicest person
in Rock n Roll at the moment?
You
are! For all these fun questions. And for reminding me to listen to Shania
more.
What do you hope the next
12 months holds for you?
Another
interview with you. ; )
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A powerful embodiment of brooding neon bubbles and simmering indie pop, the brand-new track Fucking Your Style from Tasmanian singer- songwriter Nuria (out now) bustles with gleaming empowerment and Nuria’s profound vocals. A dazzling follow up to Nuria’s recent track Graffiti, Fucking Your Style is ultimately a full-blown anthem to liberation that we all need in spades in 2022.
With moody synths, simmering beats and swooning, layered soundscapes, Fucking Your Style collides the effortless stylings of Nuria with producer Sam Phay and Peter Holz mixing and mastering, with the end result presenting as entirely polished, poised and creamier than a New York cheesecake. Embracing inspiration from some of Nuria’s girl power icons, Lorde, Lily Allen and fellow-Aussie G-Flip, Fucking Your Style is an emphatic, passionate and boundless barrel of indie pop and electronic undertones, while also flying the flag for self-awareness and truly being okay with who you are.
Nuria explains, “This is a song about owning my complexities. I’ve spent years beating myself up for feeling ‘a little bit fucked up’ and living apologetically with that baggage. Fucking Your Style is a song I wrote when I had that feeling in a big way and I was done with it. I finally thought fuck this, this is the way I am, and you can take it or leave it but I’m going to stop apologising for it now – I’m not going to be anyone’s liability.’ It was a totally liberating and empowering song to write and I still feel that way when I play it”.
Fucking Your Style – out now.

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