Bag Raiders

The pair met at school in the mid nineties, in decidedly different musical settings to the ones that they’d go on to become part of as Bag Raiders. It was during an orchestra practice, with Stracey playing violin and clarinet and Glass on piano and cello. They struck up a friendship that would rekindle in the mid-noughties, when they reunited and began to create unusual mixes of hip hop and seventies rock. They quickly moved on to making their own music, issuing a couple of EPs in 2007. By 2009, they were placing at number eleven on a poll of Australia’s top DJs, and seeing their track ‘Shooting Stars’ listed at number eighteen on the best tracks of 2009 rundown by respected Australian radio station Triple J.

They went on to enjoy further success, in 2010, with the release of their self-titled debut album; the lead single, ‘Sunlight’, featured Dan Black. To date, ‘Shooting Stars’ remains their best-loved track, re-entering the charts in 2013. Its popularity endures partly thanks to its adoption as an unofficial anthem by A-League team Adelaide United, and partly because of its use in McDonald’s adverts in 2009 and 2010. Its 2013 resurgence was perhaps attributable to an appearance on an episode of Australian Idol.