Current Joys – Open Season 2026

Nick Rattigan (Surf Curse) has been making records as Current Joys since 2013, and the prolific, restless nature of the project is part of the point. From self-recorded bedroom folk to orchestral rock, deconstructed house music to country and transcendental folk, each album follows the feeling rather than the formula. His latest, East My Love, turns the quietest of those instincts inward, using country music to work through something personal.

The result, across more than a decade, is a body of work that has quietly sold out venues from LA’s The Wiltern to Paris’ Trabendo and accumulated over a billion streams without ever sounding like it was designed to. Current Joys operates on its own clock.

Current Joys plays The Princess Theatre for Open Season. For the late-night drives and the songs that soundtracked them.

Open Season is The Tivoli Group’s annual program of music, art and cultural events, transforming Brisbane into a winter playground for live performance each year. Open Season is independently owned and operated, and has funding assistance through the Live Music Office of the Australian Government and Arts Queensland.