Tag Archive: review

Oz can put a smile on your dial

Josephine Rozenberg-Clarke checks out the latest movie to be inspired by L.Frank Baum’s novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: I should start this review by revealing two things about me: 1. I am… Read More →

Olly goes to a David Bowie listening party

Oliver Heath attends a listening session in Sydney to review the eagerly-anticipated long-player from the legendary David Bowie, his first in a decade:  I’m on my way to a Bowie listening ‘party’. I find the… Read More →

Julia & The Deep Sea Sirens: Family Pets

There is a tendency in Australian folk music to enter the room apologetically and without fuss. Singing about scorned ex-lovers with a quiet hesitation and then before their breath becomes a roar, vanish… 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 →

Spirit Valley induce emotional & moral panic

Sydney’s Spirit Valley exist within some strange, twisted limbo of the Australian music scene. To anyone who’s encountered them, they are undeniably, earth-shatteringly fantastic. Broadly speaking however, no one seems to have really… 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 →

It’s true, Solange deliciously simmers

Solange is cool. True story. Solange is like the cooler younger sister you never had. Unless you are Beyonce. Whilst her famous sibling is a useful reference when working out why the name… Read More →

Polpo is humble and delicious

Polpo is a bacaro, which is a Venetian word used to describe a humble restaurant serving simple food alongside good, young local wines. I had chanced upon a favourable review about Polpo some… Read More →

In Pursuit Of The Great White Whale

If you spend more time in dusty old record shops and on eBay than you should in the hope of finding long lost LPs, you’re not alone.

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 →

Start the Virgens once more

Back in June of last year, Karen O took her psycho opera, Stop The Virgens, to Sydney. Alongside members of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Dead Weather was a chorus of Sydney’s… 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 →