Gig Review
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Review: 2022 Full Tilt Festival @ Eatons Hill Outdoors & Ballroom (Brisbane)
While the weather isn't totally behaving itself and rain ponchos are the recommended staple in your festival bag or jacket pocket, the show must go on as the rescheduled Full
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Review: Wolf Alice @ Big Top Sydney
If there's one thing Body Type know how to do, it's warm up a crowd, which is what they're doing tonight (26 April) opening for UK's Wolf Alice at the Big Top
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Review: 2022 Uncaged Festival @ Eatons Hill Hotel (Brisbane)
With an insatiable appetite for live music, I'm frothing for Uncaged Festival to unleash its reworked line-up of predominately hard and heavy bands on the Eatons Hill Hotel
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Review: 2022 Bluesfest Day Five
Good morning, Easter Monday and hello Day Five of Bluesfest (18 April).
Punter numbers seem to have reduced but not their enthusiasm and the music is still very... -
Review: 2022 Bluesfest Day Four
The penultimate festival day (17 April) has arrived and I hunt for my morning stimulant, while others hunt for Easter eggs.
With my coffee in hand, it's game on... -
Review: Methyl Ethel @ The Fortitude Music Hall (Brisbane)
Last night (21 April) Methyl Ethel played The Fortitude Music Hall performing their latest album 'Are You Haunted?' live for the first time in Brisbane.
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Review: 2022 Bluesfest Day Three
It's day three and Bluesfest is starting to feel like my home away from home.
Arrival and check in has become so familiar and I exchange smiles with now... -
Review: 2022 Bluesfest Day Two
As the Jambalaya and Crossroads stages were not in operation yesterday, I figure I will need a programme plan today, since all five stages are open for music
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Review: 2022 Bluesfest Day One
Someone, anyone, pinch me now! Am I really at the north entrance to Bluesfest 2022!?
This feels so surreal to me as I let an over-excitedly shout "whoo hoo!... -
Review: Pond @ The Triffid (Brisbane)
It shouldn't seem easy for a band to stay so mercilessly vital as Pond are nine records into their career.
But with the aptly titled '9', the group have... -
Review: 2022 Halloween Hysteria @ Mansfield Tavern (Brisbane)
The stages were set on a gloriously sunny and warm, autumn Saturday afternoon (2 April) at Mansfield Tavern for Halloween Hysteria 2022; and let me tell you, the vibe was 100
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Review: Holy Holy @ JCU UniBar (Townsville)
After multiple delays and reschedules, Holy Holy's Hello My Beautiful World tour kicked off in North Queensland last weekend.
The tour rolled into Townsville's... -
Review: Augie March @ Croxton Bandroom (Melbourne)
It's been a long time since Augie March played their home state, let alone their debut album material.
So for the band to finally get to roll out their 2000... -
Review: Under The Southern Stars @ The Riverstage (Brisbane)
The last leg of the Under The Southern Stars 2022 tour, Brisbane's The Riverstage welcomed touring international bands (the first in two years) as well as two Aussie exports
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Review: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever @ Forum Melbourne
After what felt like half a dozen postponed and cancelled shows throughout the last two years, Melbourne's Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever finally got on stage in their home
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Review: Courtney Barnett @ Forum Melbourne
The last time this reviewer saw Courtney Barnett play in her home town of Melbourne, it was for a bushfire benefit show the summer of 2019-2020.
Little did we... -
Review: 2022 WOMADelaide @ Adelaide Botanic Park
Walking into WOMADelaide, staged at Adelaide's Botanic Park (11-14 March), you could be easily fooled into thinking life is back to normal and the past few years were a fever
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Review: 2022 Spring Loaded Festival (Brisbane)
Maaate, don't let the astronomical calendar fool you – last Saturday (12 March) at Eaton's Hill Outdoors in Brisbane it was Spring Loaded, man!
Fully loaded in... -
Review: 2022 This That Festival (Brisbane)
Given everything the past two years, last Saturday (5 March) it was time for some music therapy courtesy of This That, which made its Queensland debut at Sandstone Point
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Review: Amy Shark @ Rod Laver Arena (Melbourne)
It's hard to write a review of a stadium show in Melbourne without addressing the elephant in the room – it's been a damn tough two years.
While everyone is...