The Preatures

The Preatures are an Australian indie rock band from Sydney, New South Wales, who formed in 2010 and disbanded in 2021.

Thomas Champion and Jack Moffitt were school friends at Newington College, Sydney,[1] and they met Isabella Manfredi at the Australian Institute of Music in 2008.

They formed as a trio first, before meeting vocalist and guitarist Gideon Bensen at the Lansdowne Hotel and asking him to write songs for them.

had considerable success, winning the $50,000 Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition,[6][7] receiving a nomination for an ARIA Award for Best Pop Release,[8] and being voted ninth in Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2013.

[14] Along with the release of the single, the Preatures launched a campaign to help the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies raise money to maintain the documentation of Indigenous languages.

The end of her ten-year romantic relationship with Moffitt, along with a record contract they were unhappy with, were the main reasons for the split.

Manfredi pursued a solo career,[15] while Davison began playing drums for Australian artists Delta Goodrem and Dean Lewis.

[16] On 10 December 2024, the band reunited for a one-off performance at Sydney's Lansdowne Hotel, the first venue they had ever played, to commemorate their tenth anniversary, and reissued Blue Planet Eyes on vinyl to celebrate the occasion.