Category Archive: live

White Arrows, Opossom and Jinja Safari live

Carol Bowditch manages to avoid the attention of horny 14-year-olds in order to review some fine bands: I’d known that the Blind Date tour was going to be an all-ages show and had… Read More

The sparkliest indie music event of the year

Same Same and Sydney’s The Standard have teamed up to bring you the sparkliest, glitter filled indie music event of the year, with an all-amazing cast of artists. Sweet Tooth features some of… Read More

Electric Guest feel the love in Melbourne

Ebe Cassidy and Vinisha Mulani had a look at Electric Guest’s recent show: The Northcote Social Club had a lot of love for LA band Electric Guest, who were playing the last of… Read More

Skydreams Festival will get you jumping

When I was a kid I was terrified of jumping castles. By the time I became brave enough to jump on jumping castles I was pretty much a grown-up, and jumping in castles… Read More

Sui Zhen in Sydney, some photographs

The lovely Sui Zhen, aka Becky Freeman, invited Something You Said to her show in Sydney last week, so we popped along to take some snaps. It was a wonderful gig, as the talented… Read More

Benjamin Francis Leftwich interview

SYS chatted to the very nice Benjamin Francis Leftwich, fresh from the airport after he had played a gig in Melbourne the night before and ahead of the release of his debut album,… Read More

My Bloody Valentine Will Be Your Mirror

Imagine The Drones make you a mix tape. It’s really good. I mean, it was compiled by The Drones. They sat there, and waited for all the best songs to come on the… Read More

Quantic in Brighton

25ThC checked out some Colombian awesomeness on the South Coast: Quantic, aka Will Holland, must never sleep. He seems to release at least one or two new quality albums from his base in Colombia… Read More

Secret Garden Party is awesome

Jonjon went to Cambridgeshire’s Secret Garden Party and, safe to say, quite enjoyed it: Secret Garden Party is how all festivals should be. SGP is festival nirvana. Relaxed and fun, I have never had a… Read More

Django Django live

Django Django played two sold-out gigs at Sydney’s Oxford Art Factory this week. Their shows were exactly the kind of high-energy and fun outings that you would expect from the British quartet, as,… Read More

Northeast Party House in Melbourne

The Northeast Party House single launch was one big, sweaty, glitter covered party. Ebe Cassidy & Vinisha Mulani were there for SYS:  The crowd at The Corner had been so warmed up by… Read More

Friends, Zulu Winter & Howler live in Sydney

SYS checked out three up n coming acts in Sydney last week: Zulu Winter, Howler and Friends came together from all over the world to Australia to play at the Splendour in the… Read More