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Joburg-born, Australia-based Ruby Gill is taking her third record “Fishing is not about fishing” on the road in South Africa this summer, coming to her birthplace to answer your most existential questions, make you laugh and move you to real tears. This “remarkable achievement in songwriting and just as remarkable a performance” (Stereogum) makes profound the realm of the normal, weaving a thread of Ruby’s origin story and continual search for meaning across 11 songs - and you won’t want to miss its extraordinary album launch by this award-winning songwriter.Three albums in, and Ruby has completely nailed her very own genre of roguely spiritual, strangely catchy, rough novella hits. With unparalleled specificity and deadpan wit, she doesn’t sound like any folk you know, but that makes her all the more enticing to a much-bigger-than-cult cult following. Ruby’s tender, strange, and delightfully ungovernable “lyrical wizardry” is beloved by everyone from triple j and Double J, to BBC and KCRW over the pond. She’s sold-out tours in Australia, South Africa and the UK/EU, and been named by Rolling Stone, NME, CLASH, The Guardian and The Independent as some of Australia’s best music, with two Australian Music Prize nominations to her name and Best Country Album at the recent Australian Independent Record Awards.