Altar – Backseat Mafia

Live Review + Photo Gallery: follow at Altar Bar, Hobart 16.11.2024

It was an evening of firsts, as Hobart’s post-rock supergroup, follow, took to the live stage for the very first time and played songs from their debut LP, Old Haunts…

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Live Review + Photo Galleries: Pete Cornelius Band and Matt Ward & The Rising Sons at Altar Bar 01.11.2024

Altar Bar patrons were treated to a double-dose of musical action when South Australian outfit, Matt Ward & The Rising Sons joined forces with Tasmania’s own Pete Cornelius Band to…

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Live Review + Gallery: The Hard-Ons triumphant return to Hobart at Altar Bar 31.10.2024

Riding on the back of their latest (and 15th) album, I Like You A Lot Getting Older, The Hard-Ons bounded into Hobart’s Altar Bar (previously known as just ‘Altar’) to…

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Live Review and Gallery: Emi Emi, Tahi and Godrich at the Hobart Homegrown, Altar , Hobart 18.08.2023

The millionaire philanthropist David Walsh not only gifted his hometown city of Hobart the spectacular Museum of New and Old Art (MONA) and numerous music and art installations and festivals…

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Live Gallery: Folk-punk legend, Frank Turner plays solo show at Altar, Hobart 02.03.2023

UK folk-punk legend, Frank Turner, played to a near sold-out crowd at Hobart’s Altar last night. Not only was Frank in fine voice, but the crowd was belting along at…

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Live Review + Gallery: A grand night of music with Sydney’s Cone Of Confusion + supports GlitchCraft and Philomath at Altar, Hobart 31.03.2023

On the last second last day of their support tour for album, Hominid, the psychedelic space-jazz collective Cone Of Confusion lived up to some lofty expectations by delivering a powerhouse…

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Live Gallery: Ben Waters at Altar, Hobart, Sunday, 19.03.2023

Ben Waters is probably not well known to many who may read this. However, once you have seen and heard him, you are highly unlikely to forget him. As a…

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Live Review + Gallery: Liz Stringer & William Crighton at Altar, Hobart, 16.03.2023

I had the absolute pleasure to get to see and listen to the legends of Australian music that Liz Stringer and William Crighton are turning out to be. Not only…

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Live Review + Gallery: A Swayze & The Ghosts bring the roof down as they rock Altar in nipaluna/Hobart 16.12.2022

It felt like an eternity since A Swayze & The Ghosts had played (or at least, it did for me). Covid-19 has delayed the inevitable rise of one of Tasmania’s…

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Live Review + Gallery: Mannequin Death Squad at Altar 29/09/2022

Having recently returned from a tour throughout the UK, Melbourne power-punk 2-piece, Mannequin Death Squad (El and Dan) took to the stage at Altar here in Hobart and ripped out…

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