The Thousands

Performer Rachael Dease’s mind is always lurking about in morgues and cemeteries. Both with her band Schvendes and their black-clad cabaret, and with the Small Mercies, Sweet Graves of her operatic murder ballads. It’s no surprise, then, that Dease got way into the murderous accounts of Sydney’s real-life underbelly through the 20^th century forensic photography of ‘City of Shadows‘ and was inspired to write some songs, which she is performing at Fringe World. Each to their own, as they say.