Live Reviews

OCTOGENARIANS TO THE FORE AT PORT FAIRY Having performed in Cairns-based bands at Port Fairy Folk Festival on four occasions (once with Snake Gully and thrice with Kamerunga), senior Rhythms scribe TONY HILLIER returned to […]

Beautifully warm Melbourne night for the first of two sold-out shows for The National. Sydney singer-songwriter Annie Hamilton opened the show with a half hour set of low-key confessional tunes, including menacing new single “Talk”. […]

Nick Barker and The Fading Lights play a career spanning set on a glorious sunny afternoon at the picturesque Archie’s Creek Hotel. Sean McMahon and The Owls warmed up the crowd with a 40 minute […]

Fast becoming an annual tradition in the manner of his former band Weddings, Parties, Anything’s Christmas Shows at The Central Club in Richmond, the annual New Years Day show for Mick Thomas and the Roving […]

The Merri Creek Tavern, Melbourne – Sunday 10th December. Partway through a national tour supporting Courtney Marie Andrews, it was great to see this Texan musician’s intricate fingerpicking and sharp storytelling stretched out over a […]

Friday 1 December – The Brunswick Ballroom. The final Melbourne show for Perth punk founders The Victims. Led by Dave Flick (aka Dave Faulkner of The Hoodoo Gurus) with James Baker (The Scientists, Hoodoo Gurus, […]

Review by Samuel J.Fell Groundwater Country Music Festival Broadbeach, Gold Coast, October 20-22 Broadbeach appears in the middle distance with the lethargic ease of some sort of leviathanic apparition, highrises wreathed in the salt haze that […]

Review by Brian Wise PAUL McCARTNEY – Marvel Stadium, Melbourne, Saturday October 21, 2023 A few minutes into his first show here in six years, and only his fifth visit ever to Australia, Sir Paul McCartney said, […]

Review by Brian Wise Over the years, the Out On The Weekend festival has established itself as Victoria’s premier ‘Americana’ festival, featuring an array of some established and many up-and-coming acts from the USA mixed […]