Live Review & Gallery: Richie Lewis & Friends Brass Monkey Cronulla and The Heritage Hotel Bulli 25 & 27.11.2022
Richie Lewis, Australia’s favourite indie frontman of Tumbleweed fame, invited me along to capture his latest project – Richie and Friends, playing live in Sydney and Wollongong late last month, along with Front End Loader‘s Bow Campbell and The Too Easy Band as support. I was lucky enough to have caught them at The Music …
Live Review: RÜFÜS DU SOL at The Domain Sydney 3.12.2022
Sydney rolled out the welcome mat and perfect weather for ex pats, RÜFÜS DU SOL on Friday and Saturday night. 50,000 people greeted the Grammy winners across two nights in The Domain. Holding seven ARIA nominations and following a hugely successful tour across North America, UK and Europe selling over 500,000 tickets there is no …
Live Review: Toby Martin, The Great Club Marrickville, 18.11.22
Friday night at The Great Club Marrickville marked the start of an east coast tour for Toby Martin, best known as lead singer of Sydney indie band Youth Group. If this show is anything to go by, audiences on the rest of the tour will be delighted. The night opened with award winning screen composer, …
Live Review: Tim Rogers & The Twin Set, The Great Club Marrickville, 17.11.22
Rounding out a full week of seven gigs in a row, Tim Rogers with his band The Twin Set, delighted a full room at The Great Club Marrickville on Thursday night. A punishing schedule of gigs for the front man between his duties with You Am I, The Hard Ons and solo pursuits including his …
Live Review: Wolfmother, Dee Why RSL, 29.10.2022
Friday night saw hard rockers Wolfmother turn Dee Why RSL into one huge moshpit. Complete with crowd surfers, stage invaders and stage divers, including one brazen audience member telling security to ‘hang on’ before they ejected him so he could get some crowd footage on his phone. Local boys, Tchitaki opened the night and played …
News: Gum Ball Festival Returns Triumphant for 2023 with seminal band Mudhoney leading the roll call
One of the Hunter Valley’s most cherished cultural escapes, The Gum Ball, returns in 2023, triumphant in its post-pandemic survival, ripe and ready to return to full strength with three days of musical discovery over the last weekend of the April school holidays, 21-23rd April 2023. The Gum Ball are excited to announce seminal Seattle …
Gallery: Spring Loaded Festival, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, 22.10.2022
It was a rather brilliant return to the nineties with a very special line-up of some of the most engaging Australian indie bands for the Spring Loaded Festival held at Wollongong University. Many old favourites – Grinspoon, You Am I, Regurgitator, Jebediah, Frenzal Rhomb, Tumbleweed, Screamfeeder and Caligula, many who still tread the boards today …