Live Review
Live Gallery: Justice Transform Qudos Bank Arena With a Fierce, Elegant Visual Spectacle 3.12.2025
Before a single note was played last night, Qudos Bank Arena felt like it was slowly shifting into focus. The space filled in waves, with people finding their seats or drifting toward the floor, talking quietly as coloured lights swept across the crowd. The room’s size gave everything a sense of distance; you could feel …
Live Review: Alessi Rose – O2 Forum, Kentish Town. 25.11.25
Alessi Rose rounds out a massive 2025 with her Voyeur Tour
Live Review + Photo Gallery: Dave Graney & The Coral Snakes at Longley International Hotel 30.11.2025
Effervescent rock and roll troubadour, Dave Graney brought his long-time compadres, The Coral Snakes, to The Longley International Hotel’s outdoor stage on Sunday afternoon on the final stop of his national tour marking 30 years since the release of the bands iconic, 1995 Gold-selling album, The Soft ‘n’ Sexy Sound. Despite the threat of inclement …
Live Review: Halestorm / Bloodywood / Kelsey Karter and the Heroines – London O2 Arena 26.11.2025
Halestorm’s headline show at the O2 felt like one of those gigs where you just know you’re in for a wild night the second you walk in. The place was packed, the crowd was buzzing, and even before the main lights dropped, everyone seemed ready to blow the roof off. But first up were the …
Live Review: Young Knives / Thank, The Fulford Arms, York 18.11.2025
There are gigs that entertain, gigs that satisfy, and—every once in a while—gigs that leave you slightly dazed, giddy, and wondering quite how you’re supposed to go back to normal life the next day. The Young Knives’ night at The Fulford Arms fell squarely into the third category, helped in no small part by a …
live review: lacuna coil and nonpoint. the stylus, leeds. 25/11/2025
There are nights when a venue feels restless before anything even happens, humming with a kind of low-voltage anticipation that seeps into the walls. Leeds Stylus had that charge the moment the first bodies filtered through the doors, the kind of energy that a bill comprising of Nonpoint and Lacuna Coil can conjure. With the …
Live Gallery: Malaika Mfalme’s ‘Unfurling’ Blooms in a Room Built for Listening 28.11.2025
In the close warmth of the Red Rattler, Malaika Mfalme guides the room through Unfurling, a set shaped by grief, tenderness and quiet transformation. It’s a reminder of how deeply music can heal when witnessed up close.
Live Review plus Gallery: A pop-up masterclass in craft, warmth and multigenerational magic – Crowded House, MyState Bank Arena, Hobart, 26 November 2025
The legendary Crowded House have been undertaking a return bout of what are being called ‘pop-shows’ across Australia, covering areas they missed last year and targeting more intimate venues. Neil Finn says: We are very excited about playing in some of our favourite theatres, in 2 halves to allow some musical adventures to take place, a wide …
Live Review & Gallery: Holly Humberstone Live at Factory Theatre – Gadigal Land/Sydney, 23.11.25
Before Holly Humberstone even reached the chorus of ‘The Walls Are Way Too Thin’, something remarkable was happening in the crowd. Strangers along the barrier were catching each other’s eyes across the darkness of Factory Theatre, exchanging those knowing glances that say “you too?”. They were singing every word back to her and to each …