The frontman of hit West Australian band Spacey Jane, Caleb Harper, has played in front of plenty of big crowds.
But he has never bowled a cricket ball in front of a packed Optus Stadium.
That will change on Boxing Day, with the top Aussie indie artist locked in to deliver the celebrity first ball before Perth Scorchers face Brisbane Heat on Thursday night.
“Seam up. 145km/h. Swinging,” Harper joked when asked what fans can expect.
Harper said he loves the Big Bash and the Scorchers, but this summer is a rare opportunity to take in games with the band back in WA for Christmas. He missed out completely last year as they toured hits like Booster Seat, Lots of Nothing and One Bad Day through the United States.
“I was actually a wicket-keeper for the longest time, but then I got into bowling as I got older and taller,” Harper said of his own junior cricket career.
“I just get to see all my friends, family, people I don’t see all the time and lots of cricket, which is really good.”
And it won’t be his only delivery this summer. Harper confirmed to The West Australian Spacey Jane are just weeks away from releasing a new album.
There had been whispers the indie-rock foursome would drop new tracks late in 2024, their first release their Here Comes Everybody album in 2022.
“We’re really close with new music, we are about to start releasing it in like three weeks,” Harper told The West.
“We’ve been spending the last couple of years finishing a record and putting all that together.”
Spacey fans can expect a “bigger” sound from the group, which also consists of West Aussies Peppa Lane, Kieran Lama and Ashton Hardman-Le Cornu
“Sonically it feels a lot different for us, there are a lot more layers. To me it feels bigger in a sense, or almost poppier or something like that,” Harper said.
“We are pretty hungry to grow and evolve and it’s not as if we’re trying to sound a certain way, we just want to make music that excites us and we don’t want to stay the same at all.
“I guess it’s just natural, we didn’t try to go and make a poppier record or a big record, we were just chasing something different.”
The band are planning to hit the round for “almost two years” from the back-half of 2025.
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