Getting to know Emily Ulman
Melbourne/Narrm artist Emily Ulman has shared her new single, Mountains Mountains Mountains, which also serves as a peek into her upcoming full-length album set for release later this year. We asked her to tell us about herself:
I am… equal parts artist and organiser. I always have a calendar full of gigs, Bulldogs games, half-written lyrics and overly ambitious self-replenishing to-do lists.
I write songs that… try to explain things talking can’t. After a 10-year detour into running festivals and championing other artists, I’m back to releasing my own music – which feels both surreal and exactly right.
2025 has so far been… the year I finally stopped saying “I’m going to release an album” and started actually releasing music again. It is a gentle miracle in slow motion.
My upcoming gig at Merri Creek Tavern on Monday 2nd June with Alec Ilyine from Belgium will be… a fun, curious night of songs and stories. One of us will bring an accent, the other will bring a guitar tuner (and wine) for moral support.
Home is… an endless jumble of books, instruments and Bulldogs merch, with tea cooling beside half-written lyrics or prose, and guitars leaning against every wall like they live there (because they do)
I spend too much time… opening tabs, forgetting why, and then Googling something unrelated but urgent.
I’ve never… been one for small talk, though I’m perfectly suited for it in height.
EMILY ULMAN – UPCOMING TOUR DATE: MON 2 JUN | MERRI CREEK TAVERN, NORTHCOTE
