ARIA winning singer / songwriter Clare Bowditch sizzled at Tanks earlier this year, with her performance at Women in Song. This month she returns to promote her fourth studio album, Modern Day Addiction.

This new album is contagious, satirical, yet heart-achingly tender. It’s about humanity and the eternal search for meaning in a world of quick, delicious fixes.

As Clare tells it: “I woke up one morning and my heart was broken (just in the usual, everyday way) and all I wanted was a muffin and a tall glass of combined coffee and Jagermeister, even though I was neither hungry nor thirsty; which prompted the thought, ‘Hmm, how very interesting! Perhaps there’s an album in here somewhere?’.

Thus began my extensive and exhaustive research project into the topic of ‘Everyday Addiction and the Human Condition’. Oh the reading list was endless, I tell you, I’ve barely left the local-newsagency since…”

Tickets cost $35 and doors open at 6.30pm with show at 7.30pm.