Fortitude Valley is a suburb of Australia’s Brisbane and, by all accounts, it’s a fairly cool place with a particularly good reputation for it’s fashion conscious people and nightlife. It’s also the hometown of Laura Kovic, who moved to the UK over a decade ago and is more likely better known as the keyboard player for Tigercats, who has teamed up with Greg Ullyart (Night Flowers), Nathan Stephens Griffin and Daniel Ellis (both from Martha), to form the band named after her hometown. Fortitude Valley is Kovic’s band. She writes the lyrics, plays guitar and sings. With Fortitude Valley Kovic has moved away from the softer, dreamy sounds of Tigercats to a slightly harder hitting, upfront guitars and heavy drum beats based punky(ish) sound. Inspired by doomed spacecraft, her rescu...