TWO of Canberra’s popular musical hotshots, Lucy Sugerman and Reverend Bones, will perform live at ANU’s Kambri next week before embarking on a mini-headline circuit called the “Golden Planet Tour”, based on their newest singles.

Sugerman and Bones are joining forces in the hope that with their powers combined they’ll be able to sell out Kambri and film their first-ever live concert together, but as Sugerman tells me, they’re on a steep learning curve when it comes to promotion.

Inspired by her Vietnamese heritage and classic songwriters from the ’60s and ’70s, Sugarman’s first two releases, “i wanna kiss boys cos i’m bored” and “Colour Blind” have both been well-received.

She’s been very busy lately, having opened for Montaigne, Boy & Bear, John Butler, the Teskey Brothers and Cat Empire at “SummerSalt” on Stage 88 in late February and performed at “Good Folk” in Queanbeyan over Easter.

“I’ve been a Reverend Bones fan since his debut single,” Sugerman tells me, explaining how happy she was when he messaged her to suggest a collaboration.

For his part, Bones, a lapsed evangelical Christian turned environmental activist, leans to a darker style of music than Sugerman, exploring the edges of rock, psych, country and gospel with “manic preacher energy”. His first three singles “Tycoon”, “Cover The Camera” and “History Repeats” with his live band, The Exvangelicals, have all achieved national radio play by Triple J.

As for Sugerman, like most musicians she’s emerging from a tough year, but tells us that she’s used it well, forcing herself to get across a lot of “nitty gritty” administrative tasks and to learn the art of music production, because “there wasn’t much else to do”.

Right now, she’s busy preparing for another big concert and an EP, as well taking units in music and religious studies at the ANU, the latter with the idea of working out “how we assign value to our lives”.

Sugerman’s new single, the very personal break-up song, “Golden Boy”, written and produced with friends Charlie Hole (Thomas Porter) and Hannah Brewer (Brewer), will be out on April 29, just before the Kambri concert and Reverend Bones’ new single, “Captain Planet”, will be released on the day itself, April 30.

Lucy Sugerman and Reverend Bones, live at ANU’s Kambri, on Friday, April 30, book here.