With special guests Charlie Finn & Huck Hastings

Casual Fan is the musical project of six friends from Sydney, formed around the songwriting of bandleader, Nathan. With a love of the American folk tradition, the music of Casual Fan expands beyonds the borders of this genre, exploring diverse arrangements and themes of connection and loss, decorating simple frames with dissonance and complexity. There’s guitars and drums, synthesizers and voices, warm fuzzies, and fuzz pedals.

Forming in mid-2019, just prior to a world of lockdowns and self-isolation, Casual Fan’s first EP, “I’ve Dreamt About These Days” was released in late 2020 to many kind comments by friends and family, and radio play on Triple J and Sydney’s FBi Radio. In between live music shut-downs, the band has honed an energetic-yet-intimate live show, an experience in a constant state of reinvention that has been invited to appear on festival stages such as 2022’s Lost Paradise Festival. Taking the stage at OAF for the first time December 8th, Casual Fan will play the hits, as well as songs from upcoming release, Bono’s America, due early 2023.