Swapmeet are a 4-piece band from Kaurna Country / South Australia composed of Venus O’Broin (guitar, vocals), Joshua Doherty (bass), Maxwell Elphick (guitar, drums, vocals), and Jack Medlyn (guitar, drums, vocals). The group met as teenagers in the early 2020s while playing in various projects around the Adelaide music scene and bonded over their love of 90s alternative, citing Pavement and Sonic Youth as early influences. They soon started writing music together and released their debut single in late 2023 and quickly returned with their debut EP, Oxalis, in mid-2024. The EP earnt Best Release and Best Song for ‘Ceiling Fan‘ at the SA Music Awards, with Swapmeet the most nominated act that year.

Heavily championed outside of their home city, the group have scored tastemaker support across community radio, most notably across fbi.radio, RTR FM, 4ZZZ, Edge Hobart, 3RRR, triple j and Unearthed. They have quietly and organically accumulating shy of a million streams across DSPs since, moving out of local pub gigs and into big clubs. Swapmeet have opened for international touring artists across Australia as BENEE, Suki Waterhouse at RISING Festival, The Murder Capital, to stages shared with dust, Floodlights, West Thebarton, The Belair Lip Bombs, Twine, dogworld, Juice Webster, Egoism, doris and more. Their charismatic live show has earnt them not only a quiet confidence in their presence, but also industry buzz across BIGSOUND and SXSW Sydney culminating in the Justin Cosby Music Prize for Best Emerging Artist.