Since Stause and G Flip tied the knot in Las Vegas in 2023, G Flip has been adding pieces to the ranch-style home. There\u2019s a custom-made cabinet with all of G Flip\u2019s vinyl records, for instance, a piano centre stage in the lounge room and guitars hung on walls like artwork.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe home is very beautiful \u2013 a wide, open-plan living space with a dark-blue kitchen that feels quite feminine,\u201d says the 31-year-old. \u201cWe tried to blend a little of me in the house when I moved in. There are some retro mid-century armchairs which are very me.\u201d<\/p>\n
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All this feels a million miles away from the humble beginnings of a musician who thought session work would be the only path to recognition.<\/p>\n
G Flip, born Georgia Claire Flipo, grew up in Cheltenham, Melbourne, and spent their high school years at Star of the Sea, a Catholic girls\u2019 school in Brighton. They started playing drums aged nine on a kit their uncle gifted them. As a child, they watched father Marc play guitar as he gigged around town. Those weekends watching him hustle laid the foundational rock \u2018n\u2019 roll footsteps G Flip would eventually follow in.<\/p>\n
G Flip\u2019s parents split when they were a teen. Their mum, Lisa, remarried and G Flip inherited five stepbrothers on top of their older sister, Samantha.<\/p>\n
Unsurprisingly for someone who has turned the drum kit into a stage centrepiece, G Flip says they never lacked confidence as a child. \u201cI was always extroverted and never shy speaking publicly. Talking in front of crowds or improvising on the spot came naturally to me. I loved theatre, but once I started to learn instruments, I wanted to show people I could play them and I got more comfortable being in the limelight.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Initially finding a degree of fame via Triple J\u2019s Unearthed platform after studying music performance at Box Hill Institute, a debut album, About Us, arrived in 2019 and scored three ARIA nominations. G Flip took out their first ARIA win in 2023 for Best Australian Live Act, followed by the 2024 Song of the Year for The Worst Person Alive.<\/p>\n
Their latest album, Dream Ride, follows G Flip\u2019s award-winning second album, Drummer, which debuted at No.1 on the ARIA charts in 2023. The anticipation has been huge \u2013 and G Flip made sure fans didn\u2019t have to wait too long, even giving some a chance to hear new tracks on old-school Walkmans at a Melbourne listening party as part of the rollout strategy.<\/p>\n
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G Flip (right) married TV star Chrishell Stause in Las Vegas in 2023.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n
The choice of Walkmans (and accompanying cassettes), was quite deliberate. For this album, the musician, who was born in 1993, rewinds to the \u201980s and nods to the glam of LA\u2019s Sunset Strip, where big hair and bigger egos, revved cars and line-dancing, go hand in hand with high-waisted jeans and chaps. It includes a sweet ode to meeting Stause, Disco Cowgirl, the album\u2019s first single. And while they didn\u2019t meet line-dancing, it\u2019s about first laying eyes on one another, followed by that feeling of \u201cwhen will we meet again?\u201d<\/p>\n
G Flip has also borrowed from Michael J. Fox\u2019s Back to the Future trilogy and Corey Haim\u2019s License to Drive to muscle in on an era they could have only dreamed of living through, all rolled into one nostalgic throwback.<\/p>\n
Written and recorded at G Flip\u2019s LA home studio, each song on the album references a car \u2013 which makes sense given that they live in a city where life is difficult without one, along the way hinting at hits by Bruce Springsteen, Phil Collins and Whitney Houston from that era. But it also points to a childhood obsession \u2013 G Flip knew every car make and model on the road as a six-year-old.<\/p>\n
These days, obsession has shifted to Qantas plane models and serial numbers as G Flip plots a way to fly on every plane in the fleet. \u201cI DM Qantas a little too much on socials,\u201d they laugh.<\/p>\n
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Dream Ride also plays with the \u201980s stereotypes of what it means to be a man, and sees the non-binary artist flipping the gendered past on its head. \u201cImagine if Bruce Springsteen was a lesbian in the \u201980s, or picture a butch Madonna \u2013 that\u2019s kind of where I\u2019m at with the sound of this album.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coming out as non-binary in 2021, G Flip explains their gender identity: \u201cA non-binary person is who I am \u2013 I don\u2019t know how to be anything else. I use they\/them pronouns and am very proud of that. I am in a queer relationship and have a beautiful wife. I write from experience and from the perspective of a non-binary queer person.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I was growing up, I didn\u2019t have that representation. The backbone of my G Flip project is to be the person I never saw when I was younger. I want to make sure I am making art so that a queer kid somewhere in the world can see me online and feel they are like me.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Trump\u2019s America, where the president is having a negative impact on LGBTQI+ wellbeing, G Flip says the community is not backing down. \u201cThe LBGTQI+ is banding together in these hurtful times of madness. We\u2019re leaning on each other and are fighting the fight together.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s horrible some of the things going down in America, but we are resilient and won\u2019t be silenced. We won\u2019t change who we are for anyone. I think that is what makes us beautiful, strong, tough humans. I am so proud to be in the LGBTQI+ community, and of the allies who fight for our rights. You have to keep your head up.\u201d<\/p>\n
For now, the hardest part about living in LA is being away from family and friends in Australia. Yet for all their outward energy, even G Flip finds it challenging to make new friends. \u201cI have lived here for nearly four years and I\u2019m still longing to find more people I connect with like I do with my friends back home.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Having a supportive wife \u2013 knowing there is someone who loves them unconditionally \u2013 has certainly made the creative journey easier. In July, the pair renewed their wedding vows, hiring a castle in the Hollywood Hills and organising a wedding party with just a few days\u2019 notice.<\/p>\n
\u201cWedding parties can be hard to organise, and we didn\u2019t want it to be stressful,\u201d they say, adding that planning it all at the last minute \u201cmakes it so much more fun\u201d.<\/p>\n
The loved-up couple have also never shied from sharing their private lives. Their IVF journey, for instance, has not been smooth so far for 44-year-old Stause, who has been open about the difficulties of falling pregnant.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been going through a rough time with the IVF process,\u201d confirms G Flip. \u201cWe\u2019ve been struggling with it, and though we don\u2019t like talking too much about it because it ends up ruining our day, we acknowledge it. Queer couples are couples like anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adoption is also a possibility, says G Flip, but for now it\u2019s one step at a time. \u201cTo anyone going through IVF or finding themselves on a rough road with bringing life into the world, we feel for you and we understand and we see you.\u201d<\/p>\n
G Flip returns to Australia for the Dream Ride tour in February 2026.<\/p>\n