Live Review
Live Review & Gallery: Liz Stringer Hits a ‘Second High’ With Stunning Newtown Set 12.04.2025
Purple Rinses and Emotional Gut-Punches: Liz Stringer Live in Sydney
Live Gallery: ‘Never Mind The Bollocks’, The Sex Pistols are in Australia Performing With Frank Carter – Hordern Pavilion, Eora Nation/Sydney 08.04.25
It’s wild, really – the Sex Pistols only ever released one official studio album. Just one. But what a detonation it was. Nearly fifty years later, the blast radius is still visible – even across the globe at Hordern Pavilion this week. They came out swinging – ‘Holidays in the Sun’, ‘Seventeen’, ‘New York’ – …
Live Review & Gallery: Feeder Light Up the Darkness in Triumphant Sydney Return 10.04.2025
New Era, Same Magic: Feeder Deliver the Goods at Manning Bar
Live Review & Gallery: Australia’s Introduction to The Murder Capital Was Bigger Than You Could Imagine – Crowbar, Eora Nation/Sydney 05.04.25
The past few months have brought a hefty flood of alt and punk-rock acts streaming in from the Northern Hemisphere. IDLES came through. So did Soft Play and Fat White Family. We watched Shame’s frontman jump off a 10-foot-high speaker a few weeks ago and Kneecap reemerge the decapitated head of King George V in …
Live Review: Henge / Mr Vast – Sidney & Matilda, Sheffield 05.04.2025
Sidney & Matilda was transformed into a launchpad for the bizarre and the brilliant last Friday, packed to the rafters with earthlings in tinfoil hats, green face paint, and full-on intergalactic regalia. There was a genuine sense of occasion in the air—like a cosmic carnival had landed in Sheffield—and both Mr Vast and Henge played …
Live Review: Trivium / Bullet For My Valentine – The Paramount Theatre, Seattle 01.04.2025
Words and photos by Nestor Selgado Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine join forces during “The Poisoned Ascendancy Tour,” in celebration of 20 years of Ascendancy and The Poisoned. The metal legends were joined by August Burns Red and Sylosis during the Seattle stop of the tour on April 1, 2025. It was the first …
Live Review – David Gray – Symphony Hall, Birmingham 1/4/2025
David Gray brought his ‘Past and Present’ tour to the iconic Birmingham Symphony Hall on April 1st alongside album mate and up and coming star Talia Rae. Opening the show for David across the whole tour is London talent, who also duets with David on latest single ‘Plus and Minus’ and her voice works perfectly …
Live Review & Gallery: Microdosing a Full-Day Festival With The Jungle Giants at Metro Theatre – Eora Nation/Sydney 04.04.25
The Jungle Giants are back and their sold-out stop at Eora Nation/Sydney’s Metro Theatre on Friday night was exactly like a full-blown, sweat-drenched, sun-soaked day festival condensed into a few hours – minus the overpriced bottles of water. The Meanjin/Brisbane indie-pop heavyweights are midway through their Hold My Hand tour, and they didn’t waste a …
Live Review + Photo Galleries: Dvrkworld’s explosive launch gig debuts self-titled EP at Nipaluna/Hobart’s Altar Bar 04.04.2025
The depth and breadth of the Tasmanian music scene was put on full display at the launch of Dvrkworld‘s magnificent debut self-titled EP (see Backseat Mafia’s review here). Held at the über cool Altar Bar in Nipaluna/Hobart, the night was a blast of thoroughly satisfying brilliance from all the bands, ranging from the death metal …
Live Review & Gallery: Trentemøller Lights Up Sydney in a Dream-Pop Fever 5.04.2025
Trentemøller Returns with a Dream and a Scream