Festival

70 Years Of The Blind Boys Of Alabama: Jimmy Carter Looks Back

People get ready: The Blind Boys Of Alabama are coming.

With a career spanning seven decades, The Blind Boys are legends of the industry, and this month they're...

Dear Albert @ World Science Festival Brisbane Review

Dramatic readings have gone out of fashion over the years. We like our theatre events to have pizazz: fog machines, lighting changes and people flung about the stage like

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Not 4 Kidz @ Brisbane Comedy Festival 2016 Review

I’m a sucker for twisted re-imagining of kids TV.

Whether it’s the boundary demolishing 'Wonder Showzen', the pseudo-education of 'Look Around You' or the more...

DMA's Home Comforts

DMA’s released their self-titled EP in 2014, quickly building some serious hype and cementing their place on festival line-ups around the world.

Since then, the...

The Syncopators: It’s Getting Hot In Here

Who’s that whispering in the trees? It’s The Syncopators and they’re headlining the Brisbane Hot Jazz Festival.

So dust off your zoot suit and get ready to sweat....

Melissa Etheridge: Still Evolving

With the dust from this year's Academy Awards still settling, Melissa Etheridge remains amazed at her 2006 win for Best Original Song.

“When I was growing up in...

Aunty Donna @ Brisbane Comedy Festival 2016 Review

With the rise of YouTube, anyone with a video camera and an internet connection can grasp for that 15 minutes of fame they feel they rightly deserve.

When they do...

Cookin' With Friends: Cookin' On 3 Burners

Cookin' On 3 Burners are bringing their blend of funk and soul to the masses, and have invited a few friends along for the ride.

After nearly 20 years together,...

Becky Lucas @ Brisbane Comedy Festival 2016 Review

If you were allowed inside the head of comedian Becky Lucas, you’d find the scrawlings of a wallflower, her hilarious self-critiques written so hard on the inside of her

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The Rubens: Hottest 100 Champions Headline Groovin The Moo

After The Rubens’ single ‘Hoops’ was voted #1 song for Triple J's Hottest 100 in January, lead singer Sam Margin went into shock.

“We didn't believe it,” Sam says...

Hannah Gadsby @ Brisbane Comedy Festival 2016 Review

Australia, it must be said, has a habit of spawning comedians on the quirky end of the spectrum.

Our comedy icons tend to favour rib-hurting belly laughs that...

Cold War Kids: Self-Taught Monkeys

Matt Maust, bassist for the Cold War Kids, is excited about coming back to Australia.

The band will be touring later this month for Bluesfest and a string of...

Tweedy: Like Father Like Son

Tweedy drummer Spencer Tweedy thinks his parents are much cooler than he is.

Spencer never went through that awkward phase where he found his parents daggy: at...

Asian Dub Foundation: They’re Not Political But Justin Bieber Is

If you ever meet the Asian Dub Foundation (ADF), don’t call their music political.

Expert genre-blenders, ADF take elements of dub, ragga, hip hop, bhangra,...

Fun Machine's Chris Endrey Joins The Rock & Roll Writers Festival

Multi-talented musician, writer and comedian Chris Endrey is coming to the Rock & Roll Writers Festival in Brisbane this April.

A self-proclaimed “generalist...

Matt Okine @ Brisbane Comedy Festival 2016 Review

Multi-award winning comedian and Triple J host Matt Okine is taking over his home town at the Brisbane Comedy Festival.

2015 was a stellar year for Matt Okine,...

Damien Power @ Brisbane Comedy Festival 2016 Review

Damien Power is one of the most gifted, creative, imaginative stand-ups of his generation. Hands down.

In just a few years, he’s risen from a promising upstart to a...

Cam Knight @ Brisbane Comedy Festival 2016 Review

From the moment Cam Knight bounded on to the stage at the Brisbane Powerhouse (2 March), he exuded the energy of a man riddled with narcotics, and as his stories unfolded you

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Brisbane Comedy Festival Comedians Heart Brisbane

This year's Brisbane Comedy Festival is massive. So gargantuan we couldn't fit all the content in.

But we posed three general questions to our merry bunch of...

Brisbane Comedy Festival's Sunday Showdown @ City Hall Review

Sunday Showdown (28 February) was almost 90 minutes of hilarious, inappropriate, awkward and inventive comedy and possibly the most unexpected collection of comedic cohorts

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