Falls Festival 2019: Lorne Review
Our trip out to Falls Festival came and went quickly this year. Read on for our review of some of the highlights of the weekend’s […]
Our trip out to Falls Festival came and went quickly this year. Read on for our review of some of the highlights of the weekend’s […]
“SO WHO’S IN CHARGE IN HERE? BARKING OUT LOUD SO CLEAR, BECAUSE I’D REALLY LIKE TO MEET HIM”
Ah St Kilda, you really are a funny old place to hold a gig, aren’t you? Between your sheer impossibility to get to via public […]
The Cure? Geezus Christ. How to say something revelatory about this entity that is so much more than a band; more of a counter culture […]
Sometimes, but not often, a gig can confound expectations. Blink-182 at the Vans Warped Tour in 1998 is the perfect example of this not occurring. […]
Whilst Battles played their gig at Max Watts in mid-February and it is now early May, it may appear as though I haven’t necessarily been […]
It couldn’t possibly be that easy to be a support act and play to a crowd of someone else’s fans. Especially when these fans aren’t […]
Whilst I have never claimed to being even remotely objective in any of my writing, the slightest pretence that this may have existed has been […]
God bless us, there are many, many things that we are good at in Australia. There are also many, many things that we are not […]
“Tangled Up In Blue?” “Nah rookie error there my Pedigree Chum. No way that was Tangled Up In Blue. Tangled Up In Blue has words […]
“A singlet, a singlet, my kingdom for a singlet!” would have been the immortal line cried out by Richard III if he hadn’t died over […]
As I write this, it is now some 72 hours since I left the Corner after witnessing yet another brilliant Future of the Left set […]
As the Mystery Machine pulled away down Swanston Street, Scooby and Shaggy were baffled, stoned and hungry; the latter two feelings were nothing unusual but […]
If the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club gig at The Palace proved anything, it was that the double denim revival is gaining an incredible amount of […]
When you walk into The Corner for a gig and Creedence are already playing over the speakers, there is a fairly strong chance that you […]
Attempting to review a Tool gig is the written equivalent of trying to describe the works within the Guggenheim Museum using smoke signals. It is […]
With subject matter that is slightly on the more opaque side of pitch black, tonight’s gig was never going to be one that had the […]
Fear. Fear is not exactly the expected emotion to be feeling prior to attending a gig.
You know what was absolutely vital and what the world could not possibly do without? Yes, you guessed it, a gritty reboot™ of Total Recall. […]
The stage lights beat down mercilessly. The sweat drips like a rapidly defrosting Icelandic glacier. The tension is palpable. All wagers have been placed and […]
It was a cold, cold Saturday night in Fixie-ville. Much of Melbourne was in mourning / drowning their sorrows / slicing up and not across […]
Could it be that OzHop is evolving into something that with every recent new release was becoming more and more inconceivable; something that is actually […]
It wasn’t exactly the day the music died, but still when one of your favourite bands decides to call it a day, it is a […]
It was somewhat fitting that The Smashing Pumpkins aka The Billy Corgan Experience were headlining Splendour 2012. Their clip for Bullet with Butterfly Wings summed […]
As I missed almost all of the Dune Rats set, I am going to base this review on the 1 ½ songs that I did […]
“How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways. I loathe thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach …I […]
He’s at it again!!! Our roving gig radar Aymeric de Rosbo has been out on the trail of a good concert and has dropped us […]
Our roving gig radar Aymeric de Rosbo has been out again on the trail of a good concert and dropped us a fine two for […]