Classic Rock

BLACK MAGIC WOMAN

“When I was growing up, I saw pictures of The Beatles in India in books lying around my house. I thought: ‘That’s my fucking aesthetic. That’s what I want. Where do I get this LSD from!?’”

Rosalie Cunningham certainly has the aesthetic down. The 29-year-old is all tumbling black hair, big 60s-style sunglasses and a flowing patterned dress straight out of Woodstock. But this isn’t just gimmicky stage wear. Rosalie really knows music, and she lives and breathes this life – with a steely determination and oodles of imagination.

You may remember her from her days fronting Purson; the colourful psych rockers whose far-out threads and 70s-inspired, vaudeville-esque wig-outs turned heads earlier this decade until their

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