Music Reviews

Pitch Music & Arts 2019 Nails It: A Festival Review

As it turns out, making it to an 8.30am private bus to Pitch in peak hour traffic is harder than I thought. Luckily the organizer told everyone to arrive at 8.3... Read More...

Golden Plains 2019 Review

Ever wondered what it would be like to go to a festival without constant advertising banners and corporate greed staring you in the face? Where you can take you... Read More...

David Gray – Gold In A Brass Age Review

David Gray is back with his eleventh studio album, Gold In A Brass Age. Unlike the English singer-songwriter’s more sombre, introspective earlier records, this ... Read More...

A Day on the Green: Red Hot Chili Peppers Review

It’s coming to the end of summer in Australia but on the 2 March, 2019, the sun was shining brightly, it was a 38 degree day, and it was time to hop on a bus wi... Read More...

Skinny Lister – The Story Is… Review

What is it about folk and punk that makes them go together so well? More interestingly, why is it that you can swap their lead letters and get two different gen... Read More...

Slash tears up the Hammersmith Apollo

It’s a chilly Wednesday evening in west London and to paraphrase Saxon, denim and leather seem to have brought us all together. It’s early, but already a conga ... Read More...

Jungle take Alexandra Palace for their own

It’s a rare and beautiful thing to watch musical meritocracy in action. The death of the music industry was much over-exaggerated in the noughties. It didn’t... Read More...

J.S. Ondara – Tales of America Review

J.S. Ondara is a Kenyan singer-songwriter with a fascination for the good ol’ U S of A. ‘Tales of America’, his debut LP, takes a meandering walk through the mu... Read More...

The Teskey Brothers roll through Union Chapel

It’s 7:00pm, and in an Islington eatery down the road from Union Chapel, a motley crew is gathered. Label PRs, bloggers and journalists, they have convened to w... Read More...

Mavis Staples – Live In London Review

Real musical power is found in human tissue, not in computer chips. That’s why B.B. King could put chills down your spine with a clean amp and an old guitar. It... Read More...

Festival Review: St Jerome’s Laneway Festival 2019

It was the day of St Jerome’s Laneway Festival (9 Feb) and the rain had been pouring for a few hours. Fortunately it’s Melbourne, so within an hour the rain had... Read More...

Duke Street Block Party Delivers

Reflecting back from this dreary midweek vantage point, it’s easy to say that Duke Street Block Party thoroughly blew away my already high expectations. It was ... Read More...

Film

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JT LeRoy Review

Batman: Hush DVD Review

TV

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Music

Green Man Festival 2019 review: A magical weekend of musical discoveries

Frank Turner’s No Man’s Land – insensitive or empowering?

Slipknot – We Are Not Your Kind Review

Books

Book Review: My Not So Functional Family by Bridie Jabour

Book Review: The Carer by Deborah Moggach

Book Review: The Offing by Benjamin Myers