MOON DUO OXFORD ART FACTORY 13/02/20 The evolution of Moon Duo has been a slow and steady one over the last decade. Originally starting as a duo of Wooden Shjips guitarist Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada, the pair have retained their minimal aesthetic and core personnel but expanded their live performance to include a drummer and most recently, a stunning light show, by Manchester-based visual … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Moon Duo @ OAF, Sydney
U2, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Sydney Cricket Ground 22 November, 2019 For 43 years Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr have been playing music together. From Dublin bars to stadiums across the world, they’re one of the few legendary bands to boast such longevity with their original lineup – something that Bono would give gratitude and praise for across an epic … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: U2 @ Sydney Cricket Ground, 2019
Joan As Police Woman Factory Theatre 9 October As a venue, the Factory Theatre often lacks warmth and atmosphere but on this night Joan As Police Woman transformed it into a dreamy basement cabaret bar. There was no support act due to her playing two sets – another tip of the hat to the jazz bar scenario. It also gave the fans a chance … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Joan As Police Woman @ Factory Theatre, Sydney (2019)
Ride @ Enmore Theatre, Sydney NSW Sept 6th 2019 It’s been a long time between drinks for Australian fans of English band Ride but the timing felt just right with the band re-established for a couple of years now and with two solid new albums under its belt. It’s most likely that the members of openers Shiva & The Hazards were probably not even born … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Ride @ Enmore Theatre, Sydney 2019
Beastwars with Witchskull, Potion Crowbar, Sydney July 11th, 2019 Crowbar is quickly establishing itself as the home of Sydney’s metal and hard rock scene and tonight it hosted New Zealand’s finest metal band, Beastwars. They’ve just chalked up their first number one album, in the wake of breaking up, singer Matthew Hyde’s diagnosis and treatment of cancer, a reformation and the recording the devastating new … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Beastwars @ Crowbar, Sydney
Herbie Hancock Sydney Opera House, June 10th 2019 Herbie Hancock has been playing jazz onstage for nearly sixty years and even though this was his second show of the day in the Opera House’s Concert Hall, the septuagenarian seemed to have boundless energy as he took the audience through a spellbinding two hours of jazz fusion. Hancock has always been one to evolve with the times … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Herbie Hancock @ Sydney Opera House
Khruangbin, Harvey Sutherland Metro Theatre 14 March 14th, 2019 by Chris Familton This was a night of very few voices given that both acts on the bill were primarily instrumental trios. It was the music that did the talking and it transformed the Metro into a wall-to-wall sea of bodies-in-motion and conjured up a celebratory vibe in the room. Harvey Sutherland, the self-described funk-synthesist, was … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Khruangbin @ Metro Theatre, Sydney
No Age, Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys, Arse, Basic Human Oxford Art Factory February 14th, 2019 Almost ten years to the day that No Age last played Sydney, at the 2009 Laneway Festival, the Los Angeles duo return on the back of their critically acclaimed album of last year, Snares Like A Haircut. A fine four-band lineup had been put together for the evening and all … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: No Age @ Oxford Art Factory, Sydney
Shihad, Young Lions, The Dead Love Metro Theatre, Sydney November 24th, 2018 Thirty years, damn… where did that time go. This writer recalls first seeing them open for The Angels in Auckland, New Zealand in 1990. Back then they were fresh-faced young lads, still in thrall to the thrash metal of Metallica and co and yet to embark on the ups and downs of their … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Shihad @ Metro Theatre, Sydney
The Goon Sax, Gregor, Married Man Petersham Bowling Club 23 November 23rd, 2018 As The Goon Sax made a hurried dash from Newcastle after their flight from Brisbane to Sydney was curtailed, Married Man opened the evening of outside guitar pop music with a set that showcased the songs and voice of Sarafina Pea. Vocal effects were employed to songs that took in dream pop … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: The Goon Sax @ Petersham Bowling Club, Sydney
Power Trip, Flaming Wrekage, Shackles Bald Faced Stag, Leichhardt NSW, Australia September 22nd, 2018 As legends of the thrash scene such as Slayer, play farewell tours, attention starts to shift to who will lead the next wave of metal. On the back of their acclaimed Nightmare Logic album, Power Trip are widely considered the reigning princes of a new breed of thrash. Accordingly it was … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Power Trip @ Bald Faced Stag, Sydney
Jen Cloher, Tiny Ruins Red Rattler Theatre, Marrickville, NSW Australia 20th September, 2018 A sold out Sydney show is a great way to kick off a solo tour for Jen Cloher and as she revealed during her set, this was her first ever solo headline gig. A surprising event given the career Cloher’s established over the last dozen years. Hollie Fullbrook is better known as … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Jen Cloher, Tiny Ruins @ Red Rattler, Sydney
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