Tristan Goodall, founding guitarist and co-songwriter with ARIA Award-winning blues and roots act The Audreys, has died on the age of 48.
His passing was confirmed by the band’s singer, Taasha Coates.
“I’m very unhappy to need to move on the information that regardless of our greatest hopes for his restoration, we misplaced our pricey Tristan on the weekend,” she writes in a social submit.
Goodall had been sidelined from touring since 2020 on account of in poor health well being.
“I’ve talked to so many individuals in the previous few days who knew Tristan, and the outpouring of affection has been overwhelming,” she continues. “He touched so many people together with his lovely music, his huge coronary heart, his huge hugs and his huge goofy snigger.”
Goodall and Coates met in 1997 in Adelaide, South Australia and fashioned the band in 2004. “We have been college college students, with foolish desires about touring the world with a band.”
Goodall “already performed in a rock band, which was so cool to this skinny jazz singer with a breathy voice and crippling stage fright,” she continues. “However Tristan noticed one thing in me, and as we began enjoying and writing songs collectively a complete new world opened up. We went on to take action many great issues along with our music. We met and labored with wonderful and gifted individuals, we walked onto levels huge and small collectively all around the world. It has been essentially the most unimaginable journey.”
The dream got here true, as The Audreys toured the world on a number of events. Throughout one go to to Europe, in the summertime of 2006, the band stopped by at The Borderline in central London, for a efficiency on the Metropolis Showcase occasion, introduced by Billboard.
These dates have been in assist of the group’s debut Between Final Evening and Us, which went on to win the ARIA Award for greatest blues and roots album. The Audreys gained the identical class one other two instances.
A later incarnation of the band featured the duo of Coates and Goodall, and a fourth studio set, ‘Til My Tears Roll Away, dropped in 2014, peaking at No. 32 of the ARIA Albums Chart.
1 / 4 century after launching the band, “I’ve to say goodbye to my dearest pal, my musical soulmate, and my grief is sort of insufferable,” writes Coates. “Relaxation in peace my darling Tristan. We had a dream and we made it occur, are you able to consider that? Thanks a lot for sharing that journey with me. I’ll miss you on a regular basis.”
