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Live Review and Gallery: Fontaines D.C. set the harbour alight at the Sydney Opera House Forecourt, 06/03/2025
Fontaines D.C.‘s current live tour promoting ‘Romance’, their latest album, is nothing short of a thrilling, raw, and relentless assault on the senses, reaffirming the band’s place at the forefront of post-punk. The Dublin five-piece, renowned for their ferocious energy and compelling lyricism, have managed to push themselves into new territory with this record, embracing …
Live Review & Gallery: Hed P.E. Send Off Their Australian Tour In Style At The Triffid, Brisbane, 09.02.25
Hed P.E. takes Brisbane on an intense journey, finishing up their last Australian show the only way they know how.
Feature: Backseat Downunder’s favourite Australian gigs and photographs from 2024
2024 represented a return to full service – and more – in the live music scene in Australia where the Backseat Mafia’s Backseat Downunder Team are located. With an ever expanding range of shows attended, we covered everything from international superstars like Taylor Swift to local bands plying their trade in small corner pubs. It …
Live Review + Photo Gallery: Claire Anne Taylor brings it on home at The Founders Room, Hobart 13.12.2024
It has been almost a year since I reviewed Claire Anne Taylor’s Giving It Away (review here), and over 55 gigs later after touring mainland Australia, she and her band brought the album home to her Tasmanian base along with some surprise new tracks which have been written and road-tested while on the long haul …
Live Review & Gallery: Mannequin Pussy Debut Tour Down Under – Oxford Art Factory, Sydney 6.12.2024
Mannequin Pussy Takes No Prisoners on Their Australian Debut Tour
Live Review: Darkwave alt-pop sensation – Artemas at the O2 Forum Kentish Town 11.11.24
I principally believe we are living in a post “one-hit-wonder” era where pop music is concerned, mostly owing to the space the online world has given artists. You can have an artist, completely devoid of songs you recognise, be unfathomably popular in a way you could never have realised. In this vein, I was invited …
Live Review & Gallery: Rising to the Occasion – Viagra Boys at the Enmore Theatre, Sydney 5.11.2024
No Prescription Needed for This Viagra
Live Gallery: Ash at the Manning Bar, Sydney 12.10.2024
“Ash rule. They are geniuses. Gods maybe” (NME)
Live Gallery: Herbie Hancock at the Sydney Opera House 11.10.2024
The Legend Lives On: Herbie Hancock’s Tour Reminds Us Why We Show Up
Live Review & Gallery: Inhaler Breathe New Life into Sydney’s Roundhouse 29.08.2024
Dublin’s Inhaler Takes Sydney by Storm