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was encouraged by her dad. “He was a big triple j listener, especially in the 90s,” she says, “so I think that’s where my taste developed, with 90s grunge and metal. At school I didn’t have any metal friends, so I only listened to pop music among my friends, so it’s made me very open-minded." She’s not just using ‘CDs’ as an umbrella term for ‘music’, either – Kaylah is a mega CD fan. “I’ll buy CDs ‘til the day I die,” she laughs. “I love them.” She’s just picked up Opeth’s In Cauda Vananum (“I’m very picky with Opeth, but I heard a couple of bangers that made me fall in love with this entire album”) and is looking forward to Turnstile’s next outing, after enjoying their 2018 record Time & Space . As for her biggest hits of

2019, they were Amyl & the Sniffers (“I saw them live and they were fantastic – Amy Taylor is the best frontwoman I’ve ever seen”), Conjurer and Pijn’s Curse These Metal Hands , and classical composer Keaton Henson’s Six Lethargies . “I went and saw him live in Sydney, at the Opera House,” Kaylah says, explaining how the notoriously stage-frightened artist only appeared for “about three seconds” before retreating backstage to allow his musicians to play the pieces off sheet music. “You can feel how personal all of his lyrics and his chord choices are; it’s very emotionally-driven, and I feel it on such a personal level that I don’t really listen to it in public!” As for her position at JB, Kaylah loves the enthusiasm with which her fellow staffmembers are always ready to talk about new and

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L et’s say you’re a metal fan who loves live gigs, but in your modestly-sized city, those gigs are drying up like a fish on the footpath. Do you sadly proclaim that all is lost? Or do you, like Kaylah Chilcott, bundle your already blossoming interest in live audio production into a drive to change things? “I want to help make new gigs happen, and maybe organise some on my own, particularly in the metal community,” the

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Media Advisor at JB Launceston Home says. “A lot of the venues here have changed owners or been shut down, so I’d really like to be one of the people who helps rebuild that side of Launceston. My plan is to go [to TAFE] this year, and also try to get some work experience on the side in the evening.” In 2021, Kaylah plans to head to Europe to further her music engineering skills. But it’s not all about metal for Kaylah; she also lists Björk, Montaigne, Ecca Vandal and Josh Pyke alongside Cannibal Corpse as her go-to listens, and this diversity of faves

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upcoming media, but her favourite bit is speaking with customers. “When people come in and they don’t really know what they’re looking for, you can have a conversation around genres of music or bands that they’ve seen, that they could listen to, and possibly introduce them to something they’re never heard before,” she says. “When people start talking about their favourite kinds of music, you can really hear the passion

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behind it all – it’s beautiful to hear.”

Kaylah Chilcott at JB Launceston Home

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