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Australia’s first lady of rock and founder member of Magic Dirt, Adalita Srsen, adopts a stripped back stance for her debut solo effort.

There would be little point in Magic Dirt frontwoman Adalita Srsen repositioning herself as the Suzi Quattro of Australian Rock on her first solo release, when in essence she’d already achieved that with Magic Dirt. Appearing late last year, the Hot Air EP showed a marked reversal from the scream n’ shout of the Dirt, pursuing a stripped back approach, full of mood and texture. Webcuts spoke with Adalita in July of 2009 about the then unfinished record — “…I want to keep it pretty minimal. I think it will be bolder in that way to just have guitar and vocals”. About “Hot Air”, she explained “… was the first song I wrote for the solo album. It really just came out of the blue. I had a loop going of two simple guitar chords and then laid down a melodic refrain over the top. The words came from a poem I wrote a long time ago. I like the wistful nature of this song”. So do we. Adalita’s self-titled album is due in early 2011 on Liberation Music.

Standing tall in the face of tragedy, Magic Dirt compile a lucky dip of new, rare and unreleased tracks to coincide with their recent tour.

Having first dipped her toes in the solo waters for the soundtrack to the movie Suburban Mayhem in 2006, Adalita Srsen has remained steadfast fronting Melbourne’s mothers of sonic invention, Magic Dirt. Webcuts catches up with Adalita to discuss her transition into the solo arena.

Webcuts shows their ignorance for the modern music video and selects a top ten made up almost exclusively of 80′s Australian music videos. What, no Hilltop Hoods or Empire of the Sun??