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Max Richter is a pioneering composer known for his emotive and boundary-pushing music, blending classical and electronic elements. His work explores memory, sleep, and the human experience, captivating listeners with atmospheric beauty and profound melodies. Richter’s ‘Voices Live’ and ‘Reconstruction’ performance at the glorious Federation Hall, as part of the Dark Mofo Festival, was sublime. …

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The dynamic Dark Mofo Festival kicked off on Thursday with a night entitled ‘The Gathering’, a curated lineup of First Nations artists in a precinct-wide takeover of the MONA-owned venue In The Hanging Garden. It was, as expected and indeed hoped for, a cold dark night in the semi-open precinct but the two-way stream of …

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Today Drab Majesty have announced details of a new EP, entitled ‘An Object in Motion’, to be released on August 25th via Dais Records. Along with the announcement, they have shared the anthemic and ghostly single ‘Vanity’ featuring a rare guest vocal appearance from Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell. The track is a heavenly slice of Arctic …

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It’s been ten amazing years for the iconic Dark Mofo Festival in the southern outpost of Hobart: a period that has seen the region blossom with the ministrations of resident millionaire philanthropist David Walsh and his spectacular Museum of New and Old Art (MONA). The injection of wonder during the dark cold winter months by …

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Dark Mofo 2022 headliner, Kim Gordon and her band performed songs from her latest (and surprisingly, debut) solo release, 2019’s ‘No Home Record’. The sold-out crowd had come from all across Australia to see this one-off appearance with her band at The Odeon Theatre, and they would not have been disappointed, as she had assembled …

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Tonight, Cate Le Bon dedicated the song ‘Miami’ to the late great Julee Cruise: a fitting reference to the style and enigmatic sounds of the Lynchian favourite – elements that Le Bon herself displayed throughout this bavura performance as part of the Dark Mofo Festival. The creaky old Odeon Theatre played its part on this …

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Jason Pierce (aka J Spaceman), the lead creative force behind Spiritualized, brought his 9 person juggernaut to Australia to play 2 exclusive headlining events, one of those being at Dark Mofo 2022. Spiritualized played an extraordinary set, covering 30 years worth of material, from their beginnings on 1992’s Lazer Guided Missiles through to this year’s …

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Japanese heavy rock royalty, Boris, played to a hugely appreciative Dark Mofo audience at The Odeon Theatre here in Hobart. The band were celebrating 30 years together and the 20th anniversary of their 2002 classic, Heavy Rock. They had come to see long-standing members, Takeshi (on twin-necked guitar/bass and lead vocals), Wata (lead guitar and …

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For the uninitiated, at only eighteen years old, The Kid Laroi (the nom-de-guerre of Charlton Kenneth Jeffrey Howard) has made quite a global impact, made all the more remarkable given his age and the fact he grew up in the poor inner city housing estates of Redfern in Sydney. Now living in LA, he has …

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Dark Mofo is back in town, there’s snow on kunyani/Mount Wellington, the temperatures have plunged, and all is good in the world. Except for the bits that aren’t. In the glorious Odeon Theatre, Baxter Dury appears in his trademark creased white suit like a forgotten gin-soaked bureaucrat at some diplomatic post in some far flung …

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