Kate Bollinger

Kate Bollinger and Anna Schneider live at Mojos Fremantle | 14 January 2026

Punters were treated to a loungey evening at Fremantle’s Mojos Bar as they hosted Kate Bollinger’ WA stop on her Down Under tour.  

Anna Schneider and her band opened up with some sweet tunes and wearing their hearts

on their sleeves. With a chill instrumentation, paired with lilting vocals which breezed through the set. Her siren song drew out many of the smokers from the outside bar. Sounding good and indirectly contributing to the incidence of lung disease and nicotine addiction.

Schneiders lyrics possessed cheek, and a degree of sadness. With her songs exploring the emotionally tumultuous situations of being sad on your birthday, kissing your friend and dealing with the consequences (guilty). The combined instrumentation against the lyrical vulnerability made way for a solid set that brought out all the feels for the punters. With it being reasonably easy to swayed into a gentle hypnosis from Schnieders’ easy jams.

Whilst ordering a coke between sets, Kate Bollinger's bandmates swaggered through Mojos' laneway entrance. With guitars in one hand, and beers in the other. It felt whimsical for a moment to imagine there was an improvisational quality to the night, with things playing loose and fast (in a good way). Making the night feel more like an impromptu, homely feel of a jam session. Rather than a formal tour stop.

With the band set up, Bollinger made her way on stage. Bollinger told the crowd she was in fact suffering from Laryngitis. Despite this set back, this only made her singing (and speaking) voice more husky. With one punter cheekily exclaiming Bollinger had developed a ‘sexy husk’.

Bollinger also shared she had been ‘eating like a queen’, and quipped her fellow band members had made the remark of using several bowls to eat food. Whichever the case, her recovery strategy worked. Showing to ditch the honey-lemon drink, and carb-load in bed, instead.  Other points of discussion included exploring why Fremantle was called ‘Freo’ (a linguistic mystery to many outsides of Australia). With Bollinger concluding that ‘Freo’ was ‘Freo’, to laughs from the crowd.

Bollinger’s set was undeniably smooth, with a personality and charm that was coolly carried. It’s rare in the world to see someone’s personality get complimented by sickness. Most of us typically turn miserable and go a bit schizo (guilty again) when sick. The instrumentation was smooth, the banter between her bandmates was smooth. Even her Laryngitis was smooth. Simply put, Bollinger is a smooth woman. Who writes even smoother music. Even when she is sick, the damn woman is smooth.

So, all the smoothness aside, the night played out like a gentle sway. The punters felt like reeds, swaying onto a gentle riverbed. You kind of got lost in it. The night finished off with Bollinger treating punters to a three-song encore. With there being a reflective quality to her music, it was clear that punters were keen to see her again.

Photography by Chris Symes

Kate Bollinger

Anna Schneider