Top Shelf Session With Storm and Stone

Storm & Stone are not your average family band. The three siblings (Auriel, August & Hallelujah) came from humble beginnings in the Blue Mountains. “We were all born in the same room in a tiny two bedroom miner’s cottage in the mountains. Since childhood, we’ve always had a close knit bond from it. Family and supporting one another has always been at the forefront of what we’ve done in our lives, and in our music too”. Their parents were teenage sweethearts and as the siblings say “that love demonstrated to us by mum and dad in the way they approached us as well as their own lives was really the backbone of our start in music”. Music was always a part of the family life. Raised on Dolly Parton and Led Zeppelin “many of our musical influences came from mum and dad. Instruments were always left around the home for anyone to play. There was never any expectation to play music, just access for us if we wanted it, which all of us did and came to in our own ways”.

When the trio mention humble beginnings and a strong emphasis on family it comes from a migrants perspective. “Dad and his parents came to Australia as refugees in the 1950’s. Dad arrived tiny and malnourished. The family had to build their life and a safety net from the ground up. They had no family here. It was just the three of them. They worked in whatever jobs they could and eventually found success but it was very hard earned and dad often talks about one particular year where they ate only potatoes after they went bankrupt for the third time. It was tough but they made it”. Auriel & August explain, reiterating that the family had been very entrepreneurial.