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Live Gallery: Yours and Owls Festival Take Over Wollongong Streets for Day Two – 04.10.26

On Sunday, Yours & Owls moved conveniently into Wollongong city centre and the streets came alive. The festival’s second day has a different character entirely, and you’re moving between venues,…

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Live Gallery: Yours and Owls Festival Bring BBNO$, G-Flip, Ball Park Music, DMA’s and more to Wollongong – Day One! 03.10.26

Yours & Owls began as a Wollongong coffee shop that happened to put on gigs. It grew into a venue, then a booking agency, and has been running its festival…

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Live Gallery: The Cribs make a noisy return to Sydney after eight years away 05.10.2026

Eight years is a long time between Australian tours, but The Cribs are finally back in Sydney. Tonight the Factory Theatre belongs to Gary, Ryan and Ross Jarman, three brothers…

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Live Review plus Gallery: Underground Lovers with Amaya Laucirica, The Corner Hotel, Melbourne, 4 October 2026

There was a delicious meeting of two icons this Sunday late afternoon in Melbourne. The venerable Corner Hotel celebrated its thirty years – no small feat surviving in the cut…

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Live Gallery: Nouvelle Vague turn the Metro Theatre into a French new wave playground 3.10.2026

There is a neat bit of symmetry to tonight at the Metro even before Nouvelle Vague appear. Australian singer-songwriter Nadéah opens the show, but she is hardly a stranger to…

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Live Gallery: Amelie Farren, Lilith Max and Rabbitology at Off Broadway in St Louis 2.10.2026

Three headliners, one packed room and an audience that seemed to know every word. Amelie Farren, Lilith Max and Rabbitology brought their triple-headlining tour to Off Broadway in St Louis…

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Live Review & Gallery: Noah Kahan takes over Sydney’s Afterpay Arena on The Great Divide World Tour 02.10.2026

A countdown ticks across the enormous screen at Afterpay Arena as insects crawl through the visuals and roadies get busy building a house onstage. It has a porch and front…

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Live Review & Gallery: Conan Gray brings the ‘Wishbone’ era to Sydney’s Afterpay Arena 01.10.2026

There are sailor suits everywhere. Thousands of them. Sydney’s Afterpay Arena looks briefly as though it has been commandeered by a particularly emotional navy, while down the front one guy…

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Ben Folds under the stars at North Head 26.09.2026

There is something quite incongruous about a grand piano sitting beneath the open sky at Manly’s North Head Sanctuary. Tonight, Ben Folds arrives at Night at The Barracks with little…

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Live Gallery: Agnes Obel mesmerises the Sydney Opera House 27.09.2026

It is a cold, rainy Sunday night in Sydney, but inside the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall there is barely a spare seat to be found. Agnes Obel is back…

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