Janet Swain

Along with Jenny Parenteau, Janet was the force majeure behind the establishment of the group. Janet has been teaching music for years as a community choir leader and events organizer, and also has a background in theatre. Janet has lived in Japan, Singapore and Kuwait for 6 years and moved to the Northern Rivers of NSW where she teaches music in local primary schools, runs a bunch of community choirs, and sings with a posh chamber choir called Dynasty8. Her current loves are Japanese yoga, her new bed, her cats and her two kids. And of course, all things Loveys.

Pam Freeman

The newest member of the Loveys, Pam brings outrageous charm, humour and spunkiness to the band. She also writes flattering bios for herself. She anchors the Loveys’ sound with the sexiest instrument of all, the electric bass. She grew up near London in an unmusical family but picked up the guitar as a teenager so she could learn all of Dylan and Cohen’s most tragically romantic songs. Now she writes her own tragic songs and plays them to whoever will listen.She lives in downtown Mullumbimby and in her spare time tries to maintain a home and a family.

Jenny Parenteau

The “mother superior” of the group, hailing originally from New Zealand where she sang in a Maori band, to New Caledonia where she learned Edith Piaf songs, to Argentina to tango, Tanzania where she sang in her own jazz band, to Qatar where she taught ukulele to Arabic women and children, Singapore where she taught Filipina maids to play uke, to today when she writes quirky songs for the Loveys and still teaches ukulele (at the Mullumbimby Neighbourhood Centre) to anyone who wants to learn.

Belinda Eadsforth

Successfully living three lives in one (or so she tells herself), Belinda is a mum of three, a wife of one, an Assistant Principal, and a Lovey. From musical beginnings in the Sutherland Shire where she played the clarinet and sax, Belinda has made her way to the Far North Coast of NSW to raise her family and avoid the chaos of Sydney. Belinda spends most of her time timetabling her busy families lives’, taxiing teens and small children around the Tweed Shire, gardening, and living her best life playing the drums and sometimes ukulele for The Loveys.