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Live Review + Photo Gallery: Beth Orton at The Odeon Theatre, Hobart 26.04.2024

In her first tour Down Under in 6 years, and following on from an enforced break to bolster her health (the tour having been postponed from November 2023), Beth Orton…

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Live Review + Galleries: Bluesfest Byron Bay – Day 4, Sunday 31.03.2024

If the Saturday at Bluesfest Byron Bay had been fairly hectic with me getting to 11 artists, then Sunday would turn out to be even busier. With the crowds still…

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Live Review + Galleries: Bluesfest Byron Bay – Day 3, Saturday 30.03.2024

I felt refreshed on Saturday, and vowed to make this a big day…..and so it turned out that I would catch 11 acts throughout the day. This began with Australian…

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Live Review + Galleries: Bluesfest Byron Bay – Day 2, Friday 29.03.2024

The Friday at Bluesfest is traditionally one of the bigger days as far as crowd attendance is concerned, with many 3-day ticket holders beginning their festival on this day. To…

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Premiere: The Felicity Cripps Band peers ‘Inside A Keyhole’ and creates a transfixing, glittering world.

We are honoured to premiere the new single ‘Inside A Keyhole’ from the Felicity Cripps Band: a gently floating ethereal bundle of joy that shimmers and sparkles under Cripps’s velvet…

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Album Review: Observers – The Age Of The Machine Entity

Martin Kennedy has been nothing if not prolific in recent times. From All India Radio to collaborations with Gareth Koch and Steve Kilbey, Kennedy has brought us some of the…

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Live Review + Gallery: MONA FOMA festival – Mogwai, Kutcha Edwards & The Australian Art Orchestra and The Shruti Sessions MONA Lawns, 23.02.2024

An eclectic mix of artists played the Friday edition of The MONA Sessions, with headline act Mogwai being joined by indigenous star, Kutcha Edwards (accompanied by the Australian Art Orchestra)…

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Album review: Giving It Away by Claire Anne Taylor

If there is one name that is synonymous with independent folk and folk-rock in Tasmania today, it is Claire Anne Taylor. The girl with the fiery red hair and the…

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Live Review + Photo Gallery: Claire Anne Taylor bares her soul during ‘Giving It Away’ album launch 27.01.2024

I had the absolute pleasure of witnessing the Hobart leg of Claire Anne Taylor‘s album launch tour for new album, Giving It Away. Making the experience even more exciting was…

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News: US bluesman, Albert Cummings set to release new album, Strong

Guitar-slinger, Albert Cummings has written and recorded his third album for release on his own indie label imprint, Ivy Music Company, and will be his eleventh overall album in a…

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