Hobart
News: Winter 2024 – Dark Mofo unveils a slimmed down Festival featuring Marlon Williams and Genesis Owusu, but the bacchanalian revelries remain.
Like an influencer on Ozempic, Dark Mofo returns this year in a very slimmed down form but without the nausea and a lot more agile as a result. And hopefully this is just a pause before normal services resume next year, in rude health. Despite the initial impression from an announcement earlier this year that …
Album Review: ‘Premonition K’ is another luminescent chapter in the mystical, fantastical world of Kilbey/Kennedy (Steve Kilbey from The Church and Martin Kennedy from All India Radio).
When you put together the incredible musical skills of songwriter/multi instrumentalist and producer Martin Kennedy and the vivid and unbounded imagination of the legendary Steve Kilbey, you get something far greater than the constituent parts in Kilbey/Kennedy. Seemingly forming part of a triptych with earlier collaborations ‘Jupiter 13’ and ‘The Strange Life of Persephone Nimbus’ …
News: Tinariwen announce Australia/New Zealand tour
Desert-blues pioneers, Tinariwen, have announced an eight-date tour of New Zealand and Australia in May/June of this year. The tour begins in New Zealand before winging its’ way across the Tasman to span the breadth of Australia, from Hobart and Fremantle through to Brisbane and Adelaide with appearances at Vivid Festival in Sydney and Rising …
Track: There’s no doubt who’s a ‘Cool Cucumber’ – the brilliant A. Swayze & the Ghosts explode back into the universe with a cool savoir faire and a glam rock sparkle.
One of Australia’s best punk exponents, the brilliant A. Swayze and the Ghosts from niaplauna/Hobart, have made a blazing return to the scene with their new single ‘Cool Cucumber’. It’s been four long years since their debut album ‘Paid Salvation’ (see my review here) and the new single is a satisfying electric shock to the …
Live Gallery: MONA Foma Festival – QOTSA – MONA lawns 16.02.2024
Very privileged to have had Queens Of The Stone Age play twice in Hobart during the Museum of Old & New Art’s MONA Foma Festival 2024. These shots are from the band’s performance on the lawns of MONA on the first week of the festival, Friday 16.02.2024.
Live Review plus Gallery: MONA FOMA Festival, Paul Kelly, Odeon Theatre, Hobart 18.02.2024
It’s a strangely warm night at the edge of the world in Hobart and it must be quite a shock for the troubadour extraordinaire Paul Kelly who has only just got back from performing on a ship in Antarctica. The thing is, though, Kelly and his band raised the temperature quite a bit on their …
Premiere: We get an exclusive look at the video for the dreamy pop of new single ‘The Black Bull’ by Melbourne artist Sainthill ahead of new album ‘Dream Animal’
We are very honoured to bring you an exclusive look at the new video for the sweeping, beautiful new track ‘The Black Bull’ by Melbourne-based songwriter Sainthill (the moniker of Tom Larkey), ahead of the release tomorrow. ‘The Black Bull’ is a shimmering melancholy track with guitars that glitter and sparkle in the firmament like …
Track: lutruwita/Tasmanian band Verticoli are back with ‘The Fear’: a thunderous onslaught of cathartic power.
Following swiftly on the heels of solo single from member Sam Hunn (see review here), nipaluna/Hobart trio Verticoli are back with their ferocious new single ‘The Fear’ – a smashing vibrant slice of anarchic rock. Delivered with a raucous swagger that positively rips apart the speakers, this is a scything slice of pounding rock that …
Album Review: Gareth Koch’s ‘Ghost Stories’ is an ethereal collection of instrumentals that shimmer and sparkle with an ethereal glow.
Tamar Valley-based Gareth Koch (in lutruwita/Tasmania) has released an sparkling album of instrumentals entitled ‘Ghost Stories’ and it takes you on a magnificent journey. Koch has, of course, impressive form – he has collaborated with Steve Kilbey (The Church) and Martin Kennedy (All India Radio) in the past in a sort of triumvirate of sonic …
Track: Sam Hunn (Verticoli) channels a little ‘Kurt Cobain’ in thundering new solo track.
Ahead of new material from his band, Verticoli (a firm favourite here at the antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia), singer Sam Hunn has released a debut solo track ‘Kurt Cobain’. The track is about feeling emotional turmoil like the eponymous singer. Hunn says: …although tongue-in-cheek, (it) is a commentary on the long-standing issue of glamourizing …