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Live Gallery: VOIID, Northcote Social Club, Melbourne, 16.06.2023
Feature photograph: Ian Bickerstaff
Live Review plus Gallery: Dark Mofo Festival, Trentemøller, MAC 02 Centre, Hobart, 18.06.2023
Last night, Anders Trentemøller and his full band played the last night of the musical part of the Dark Mofo Festival in the vast cold cavern that is the MAC 02 hall. A performance so immersive and cathartic it made the venue feel like an intimate cavern, and heated up the interior like a solar …
Live Gallery: Weyes Blood, Rising Festival, Forum Theatre, Melbourne, 07.06.2023
Playing as part of the Rising Festival – Melbourne’s foray into winter entertainment – Weyes Blood captivated a packed house at the Forum and quickly made us forget about the wintery weather outside as she brought her distinctive style to Melbourne. Drawing from her acclaimed albums “Titanic Rising” and “And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow,” …
Live Review and Gallery: Dark Mofo Festival, The Gathering, Denni and Tasman Keith, In The Hanging Garden, Hobart, 08.06.2023
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 …
Album Review: Anika – Eat Liquid
EAT LIQUID is a commissioned work I, Annika Henderson, aka ANIKA composed for and performed at the Zeiss Planetarium, Berlin, in collaboration with their visuals team, who provided a suitably out of this world experience made up of fractals, maps to the stars and a birds-eye-view of Berlin. The composition is inspired by Timothy Leary’s …
Live Review and Gallery: Charlie Needs Braces – MONA Lawns, nipaluna/Hobart, 18.03.2023
Having just released the searingly brilliant debut album ‘Saltwater People’, Charlie Needs Braces (the solo effort of Charlie Woods) is embarking on an ambitious Australia wide tour, bringing an incandescent ray of sunshine wherever she (and her sister) goes. Playing in the afternoon sun (albeit intermittent and not so warm – it is the southern …
News: Bluesfest Byron Bay adds a further 6 acts to its’ already impressive lineup for 2023.
Bluesfest has unveiled its’ second announcement for the 2023 festival, this time tantalizing festival-lovers with another 6 international acts sure to tempt those still vacillating about whether to go or not. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Counting Crows, The Doobie Brothers (with Michael McDonald), Vintage Trouble and Allison …
Live Review: UB40 featuring Ali Campbell kick off Australian tour at City Hall, Hobart
Hosted by The Hour Group and Vandemonium Touring, reggae royalty, UB40 featuring Ali Campbell, kicked off their Australian tour on Friday night with a gig in Australia’s southernmost capital city, Hobart. Whilst the band only retains Ali Campbell from the original UB40 lineup, the gathered musicians who go to make up the band turned in …
Live Review: Spin Off Festival, Adelaide Showground, 23.07.2022
The return of Spin Off Festival in Adelaide was huge after having to cancel and reschedule several times since 2019. The huge line-up included acts coming over from the Splendour in the Grass Festival in Byron Bay, which meant that tickets sold out instantly. If you were lucky enough to get your hands on this …
Say Psych: Preview: Manchester Psych Fest
The UK’s leading psychedelic music and arts festival Manchester Psych Fest has announced a huge line up for its ninth and biggest edition of the one-day event to date, taking place on 3rd September 2022 and BSM will be there on the day to take it all in. Joining the likes of Tinariwen, Warmduscher and Jane Weaver, Manchester Psych …