Review: Unknown Mortal Orchestra in London
About three months ago I reviewed the sophomore album, II, by Kiwi-fronted, US based, Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Without knowing a thing about them, I was led only by the fuzzy warmth and vintage… Read More
Category Archive: live
The Great Escape: Day Three
The final countdown, do-do-do-do. Yes, seemingly so soon after it had begun, The Great Escape’13 had already reached its last day. The closing Saturday of the festival started as all the coolest events… Read More
The Great Escape: Day Two
Amid hangovers and weary limbs after the opening day’s festivities, the second instalment of The Great Escape’13 creaked into life Friday lunchtime, yet it didn’t take long for things to hit full throttle.… Read More
The Great Escape: Day One
There’s little denying that Brighton in the Spring sunshine is a location of absolute magnificence, so when you add 350 amazing bands playing in over twenty venues around the city to sixteen thousand… Read More
Kirin J Callinan’s Tales From The Crypt
Beneath St James Cathedral, a lone figure stood. Licentious in nature (if only while onstage), a small few hundred, rubbing elbow-to-shoulder-to-mouth-to-nose, packed in like sardines to catch a glimpse of the flickering flame… Read More
Read This Before You Play Music In Public
These are the rules. I didn’t make them up. These are inalienable truths, a part of the divine spectrum of unquestionable constants that hold our universe together. There might be those who feel… Read More
The Party’s Over Kids, Go Home
On a rainy weekend, Bianca Cornale headed out to pay her respects at ma.gallery’s fourth and final boozy birtday blowout that went down at the Oxford Art Factory in Sydney. For those unfazed… Read More
Laneway throws a good party
Bianca Cornale headed along to Laneway Festival in Sydney, and even if the boutique festival has grown, it’s definitely not too big for its boots, or rather, its incredibly elegant pointy leather brogues. … Read More
Two Door Cinema Club & The Vaccines live
Earlier this month, I attended a show at a cinema club (with two doors) where everybody was getting themselves vaccinated against giant jungle creatures. Oh wait, no I didn’t. That’s what my ticket… Read More
Bridezilla at Oxford Art Factory, Sydney
“VALE, BRIDEZILLA” by Jack Colwell. And so, the masses gathered to mark the end of an era. Familiar faces that had made up the members of the Bridezilla family since the band formed… Read More
The Hives at The Metro, Sydney
Elfy Scott got sweaty, dazzled and, well, a bit aroused when The Hives put on a show in Sydney last week: The 7th of January 2013 not only presented Sydneysiders with a blistering,… Read More
Falls Festival had us at hello
I had never been to Tasmania. I love SBTRKT. Falls in Marion Bay had me at ‘hello’. Regaled by an aggressively drunk Wigan slash Adelaide native (we knew this, from her constant refrain… Read More