Hobart
News: EWAH and the Vision Of Paradise’s Emma Waters presents special showings of film ‘Finding Paradise’ with a soundtrack from the band’s album ‘The Warning Birds’.
EWAH and the Vision of Paradise (EVoP) released a magnificent album ‘The Warning Birds’ last year (see my 9.2/10 review here) – an album that I described as being a palimpsest for beauty and decay, wild and turbulent landscapes with the intrusion of modernity and the threats and ugliness this can entail. It is an album that …
Premiere: nipaluna/Hobart’s Verticoli land an elegant atmospheric post punk catch with their new single ‘Sailor’, and announce launch gigs ahead of album news.
We are honoured to premiere the new single ‘Sailor’ from nipaluna/Hobart trio Verticoli: an atmospheric enigmatic gem that sparkles intensely with a slow burning fuse. It has the driving energy and poise of something by The National with an ominous edge redolent of Interpol, Nirvana or early The Cure: a guitar driven undercurrent with yearning …
Album review: Hobart post-punk trio, Liquid Nails, unleash powerful debut, self-titled LP
Post punk Tasmanian 3-piece band, Liquid Nails have been together since 2019. Subtract 2 years for a global pandemic, mix it with the glacial pace of offshore pressing and shipping, and they have, in a timely fashion, banged out their debut LP! The 12 inch 45rpm self-titled album (in true punk tradition) delivers 10 blistering …
Track: Caelo is ‘Tongue Tied’ – a sparkling gem of hope and optimism. Plus gig date announced.
Nipaluna/Hobart musician Abe Parsons, working under the moniker Caelo, is continuing a stunning upwards trajectory with his third single ‘Tongue Tied’: a raw and visceral folk-inflected piece of indie pop that creates a guitar-laced web that enraptures and captivates. The complex crystalline guitars form the spine to this song: melodic and intricate, while Parson’s voice, …
Premiere: The magical All India Radio unveils shimmering new instrumental ‘Beginning Part 1’ along with news of nineteenth album ‘The Generator of All Infinity’.
The world of Martin Kennedy’s All India Radio is one of mystical sounds and visions that reflect a retro sci-fi world; rich, lush, shimmering sonic architecture that transports you to another universe, another dimension. The astonishing layered nuanced sounds are accompanied by videos and graphics that evoke this strange and alien metaverse. We are therefore …
Live Review & Photo Gallery: The Raccoons at The Republic Bar, 10.07.2022
Tasmanian rockabilly royalty, The Raccoons made a successful return to the live stage after a lengthy layoff due to the sad passing of former bass player, Alexander ‘Sandy’ Campbell back in February. With new bass man, Warren Hankey in tow, the band powered through two sets of toe-tapping, skirt-twirling rock and roll goodness, delighting the …
Live Review: Dark Mofo Festival – Kim Gordon – The Odeon Theatre, Hobart, 18.06.2022
Dark Mofo 2022 headliner, Kim Gordon and her band performed songs from her latest (and surprisingly, debut) solo release, 2019’s ‘No Home Record’. The sold-out crowd had come from all across Australia to see this one-off appearance with her band at The Odeon Theatre, and they would not have been disappointed, as she had assembled …
Live Review & Gallery: Dark Mofo Festival – Spiritualized – Mac 02, Hobart, 17.06.2022
Jason Pierce (aka J Spaceman), the lead creative force behind Spiritualized, brought his 9 person juggernaut to Australia to play 2 exclusive headlining events, one of those being at Dark Mofo 2022. Spiritualized played an extraordinary set, covering 30 years worth of material, from their beginnings on 1992’s Lazer Guided Missiles through to this year’s …
Live Review: Dark Mofo Festival – The Kid Laroi, MyState Arena, Hobart, 11.06.22
For the uninitiated, at only eighteen years old, The Kid Laroi (the nom-de-guerre of Charlton Kenneth Jeffrey Howard) has made quite a global impact, made all the more remarkable given his age and the fact he grew up in the poor inner city housing estates of Redfern in Sydney. Now living in LA, he has …
Live Review: Dark Mofo Festival – Baxter Dury, Odeon Theatre, Hobart, 10.06.22
Dark Mofo is back in town, there’s snow on kunyani/Mount Wellington, the temperatures have plunged, and all is good in the world. Except for the bits that aren’t. In the glorious Odeon Theatre, Baxter Dury appears in his trademark creased white suit like a forgotten gin-soaked bureaucrat at some diplomatic post in some far flung …