Exclusive: Katie Noonan beats crowdfunding target in less than 48 hours

Last Thursday 4x ARIA Award winner Katie Noonan launched her EP Peace Is My Drug with a crowdfunding campaign, and in less than 48 hours she surpassed the target.

Noonan made the EP available exclusively through PledgeMusic with 5% of all funds generated going to non-profit charity Beyond Blue. While the actual monetary figure of the goal won’t be disclosed (PledgeMusic doesn't disclose this information) currently, it’s at 128% of the target.

Noonan said of the response to her EP: “It is also exciting on another level as it feels like this is a genuine way of the future for record making and for creating shared experiences into the creative process with like-minded people. 

“I have always felt that audience and artist are equally important at a live concert - the energy exchange, the mutual respect and the shared connectivity. Now I feel similarly about the album making process - it is a new and awesome feeling! Thank you, thank you, thank you for allowing me to do what I do and I can't wait to share this album with you. Very exciting!”

Additional to receiving the EP download this July in exchange for all pledges, fans can still pledge for: artist mentorship programs, signed Leunig ‘Peace Is My Drug’ prints, a video of Noonan performing a favourite cover song and an at-home private concert.

Peace Is My Drug is five tracks: the title track - based around the Michael Leunig poem Peace featuring a second verse which Leunig created exclusively for the song - the track Cloud of Home, and three remixes of the title track.

The EP tour commences March 12 in Melbourne and finishes March 28, in Maroochydore. Noonan’s touring band includes longtime collaborators Stu Hunter and Declan Kelly (The Captains), and Melbourne guitarist Ben Edgar (Angus & Julia Stone).