Our love affair with music is a constant and ever growing affection, that rises and falls daily. We are introduced to new sounds that we fall head over heels for; rekindle relationships with old musical flames; and close our hearts off to those melodies we no longer connect with. Our arousal can be fickle or […]
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1. HOW DID YOU BEGIN YOUR JOURNEY INTO PHOTOGRAPHY AND WHO WAS THE VERY FIRST PERSON YOU EVER TOOK A PHOTO OF IN YOUR CAREER AS A RENOWNED PHOTOGRAPHER? My dad taught me how to develop and print my own images when I was 12. So that was over 45 years ago. I never […]
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The dynamic and unique soulfulness of YVÉ GOLD is hard to ignore. It settles on your skin, seeps into your pores and injects your bloodstream with a melody of honey amber. It is sweet yet hard, sugary yet complex. The sensational YVÉ GOLD is a rapper, singer and lyricist from Melbourne. Currently featured on Triple J’s Unearthed, YVÉ GOLD really […]
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It is absolutely mind-boggling to realise just how influential David Bowie has been in popular culture for the past several decades. Not only has he significantly influenced modern day music – quoted as being one of punk’s most seminal influences, blurring the lines between glam rock, punk rock and pop – he is also an […]
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Big Day Out is a religion. Throughout its decade long tenure, this festival has seen a convoy of sanctified artists, grace its stages at various venues around our nation girt by sea. And the Big Day Out faithful have followed uninhibited. In fact, uninhibited is a gross understatement. The devoted fans are completely out of control. […]
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Patriotism means different things to different people in different countries. It can be viewed as the display of pride of one’s home land, or the innate need to want to protect its liberties and rituals. In Australia, we have one particular ritual that has survived a lengthy occupancy throughout our land. It is one custom […]
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Big Day Out is a force to be reckoned with. I wanted to begin this article by entering into some lavish introduction about how Big Day Out is over two decades old, with 101 shows so far exhibited nationwide. I wanted to display in words the enormity of this music festival that trumps all in […]
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This is a very unsuspecting album. I did not suspect it to throw me off the sassy French New Wave band scent as much as it did. There was no odour of Nouvelle Vogue on this album. No whiff of those re- interpreted chansons that made the collective group of artists so unique. I even […]
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Break out the whiskey glasses, throw in the ice and take a huge swig of this intoxicating new album from the duo that is Grand National. Incorporating the talents of Rupert Lyddon and Lawrence ‘La’ Rudd, both hailing from London, Grand National is quite the enigma. They possess a momentous sound with intricate layers – […]
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Prepare your ears for the refreshing sounds of Benny Sings, whose latest album Benny…. At Home is bubbling with a sparkling array of jazz, a zest of hip hop and a juicy chunk of pop, without any sickly sweet after taste. Like a thirst quenching glass of ice cold pink lemonade, Benny Sings puts the […]
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