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Live Gallery: Sunday service gets a psychedelic makeover as The Church go orchestral 01.11.2026

It’s Sunday night in Sydney, and we’re all off to Church. But tonight’s service comes with a 30-piece orchestra, a healthy dose of psychedelia and some of the finest songs…

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Album Review: Things We Did on Earth – The Kilbey/Kennedy sonic spaceship alights in our universe, and they’re better than ever.

Over the years, writing about Steve Kilbey and Martin Kennedy has become a little like tracing constellations across different skies. Whether reviewing latter-day albums by The Church or previous Kilbey…

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News: The dynamic collaboration between Steve Kilbey and Martin Kennedy continues with news of their new album ‘Things We Did On Earth’

There’s a neat symmetry to this one that feels almost too perfect to script. In the early ’80s, a teenage Martin Kennedy stood in a dusty field watching Steve Kilbey…

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Live Review +Photo Gallery: The Church tantalise at Princess Theatre, Launceston 10.12.2025

With over 40 years of material to choose from, The Church brought their ‘The Singles Tour: A Career Retrospective‘ tour to the beautiful Princess Theatre, Launceston in a one-off stop…

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Track: The Church are back in session and unveil shimmering new single ‘Sacred Echoes (Part Two)’ ahead of Australian singles tour.

Normal service in an increasingly bizarre world has been at least temporarily been resumed with the exciting release of a new single by one of Australia’s finest exports, The Church.…

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Album Review: Steve Kilbey & the Winged Heels take ‘The Road To Tibooburra’ – an exquisite dreamy journey through the Kilbey expansive universe.

Ass soon as the anthemic jangles begin in the opening rack ‘Adrift’, you know you are back in the heavenly spheres of Kilbey land: where endless melodies flourish like the…

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News: The works of legendary Jack Frost – the collaboration between The Church’s Steve Kilbey and The Go-Betweens’ Grant McLennan – now available on a multi-disc compilation.

Easy Action Records have today announced the release of a multi-disc compilation of the work of Jack Frost – the legendary collaboration between The Church‘s Steve Kilbey and The Go-Betweens’…

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Live Review + Photo Gallery: Australian rock royalty, The Church at The Odeon Theatre, nipaluna/Hobart 30.11.2024

The legends that are The Church winged their way into Hobart to roll out the Tasmanian leg of their ‘The Already Yesterday Tour’, a celebration of the first four albums…

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Album Review: The Church releases the exquisite ‘Eros Zeta and the Perfumed Guitars – another collection of finely honed sonic treasures.

We could seriously dedicate a single writer full time to cover the creative output of Steve Kilbey over a year, and the release of ‘Eros Zeta and the Perfumed Guitars’…

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Meet: We chat to Martin Kennedy (All India Radio, Kilbey/Kennedy, Observers) about recording, heavy metal, and collaborating with Steve Kilbey (The Church)

Martin Kennedy has a had a long and impressive career in music. He was given a guitar with four strings at the age of fourteen, made up his own chords…

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