Emerging as one of Australia’s most energetic, riled-up noise-pop acts, Cry Club are for anyone who’s ever been called too emotional, too sensitive, too much. Before the duo even had a single out, they were booked to play BIGSOUND and Yours and Owls Festival on the merit of their frenetic and endearingly excitable live show alone.


In 2018, their debut single ‘Walk Away’ – an empowerment anthem that encapsulated the negative effects the same-sex marriage plebiscite had on many LGBT+ folk in Australia – saw them receive triple j airplay and rave reviews by The Music and Pilerats, who called the track “one of the best debut singles of the year.”

Their second single ‘DFTM’ – a scathing call out of when physical boundaries aren’t met at shows – was added to full rotation at triple j in April this year, featured on the station’s ‘Most Played’ list, and saw Cry Club donned Unearthed’s Feature Artist in March.

Hailing from Wollongong and residing in Melbourne, best friends Heather Riley (vocals) and Jonathon Tooke (guitar) are two-halves of the one whole. They got their start merging two genres that rarely meet eye-to-eye: post punk and pop. “I think every song we have is always going to sit in a different part of the pop to noise spectrum,” says Tooke.