On the back of his big international hit 'Riptide', Vance Joy has marked himself
out as one of Australia's most popular young singer-songwriters, rising from
open mic nights in Melbourne to touring baseball stadiums with Taylor Swift.
A talented Aussie rules footballer who played for his local side Coburg, James
Gabriel Keogh was a big Metallica and Green Day fan in his teens and later
completed a law degree, before really focusing on his music in 2012 and taking
his Vance Joy stage name from a character in Peter Carey's darkly comic 1980s
novel 'Bliss'. With an old school fri...