New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2023 – Weekend #1
New Orleans Jazz& Heritage Festival, Friday April 28, Saturday April 29 & Sunday April 30, 2023 By Brian Wise It has been four years since my last JazzFest, my 25th, so it felt somewhat like […]
Live Reviews
Cresfest – A User-Friendly Alternative
CRESFEST 2023, March 31 – 2 April 2 Creswick, Victoria By Chris Lambie When major events grow too big and busy for some, smaller community-led gatherings provide an affordable user-friendly alternative. The CresFest folk & roots […]
Bluesfest Melbourne – Day One
Bluesfest Melbourne – MCEC, Saturday April 8, 2023 By Brian Wise| Images: Michael Mackenzie Check Out the 2023 Bluesfest Byron and Melbourne Image Galleries Here It’s just over two decades since the first attempt to […]
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Port Fairy Folk Festival 2023 Review
PORT FAIRY FOLKIE – STORIES, RESPECT AND A WHOLE LOTTA MUSIC By Alan Calder. Proudly flying under the new Folkie branding and having been named Victoria’s Best Regional Festival in 2022, the Port Fairy Folk […]
Billy Bragg@The Forum, Melbourne – Chop & Clang!
Review by Nick Corr Billy Bragg – Chop and Clang at The Forum, Melbourne, Thursday March 16, 2023 Night two of Billy Bragg’s One Step Forwards Two Steps Back three-night residency focusses on his earliest […]
Womadelaide 2023 – Roaring Back To Life!
Womadelaide, March 10-13, 2023 By Brian Wise It was fitting that Youssou N’Dour closed this year’s Womadelaide, signalling that the event was back to normal after the Covid hiatus. N’Dour played at the very first […]
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Tim Rogers & The Twin Set Live
Review by Nick Corr. Tim Rogers & The Twin Set Live Brunswick Ballroom 16 November 2022 The Brunswick Ballroom was packed to the rafters for the first Tim Rogers and The Twin Set show in […]
Custard Live @ The Brunswick Ballroom
Review: Nick Corr / Photo: Thomas Glenn (Custard Appreciation Society) Custard Live – Brunswick Ballroom, Melbourne – Saturday 12th November 2022 It was something of a Nineties alternative rock reunion at Brunswick Ballroom on Saturday […]
Tamikrest @ Meeniyan Town Hall
Tamikrest – Meeniyan Town Hall, Saturday October 29, 2022. By Ian Bevington (Image by Col Uren) Meeniyan Town Hall, ever culturally adept, last night presented Saharan Blues rebels Tamikrest (whose name translates both to “alliance” […]
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The Hoodoo Gurus @ The Bowl
Review by Nick Corr. Stoneage Cameo – Hoodoo Gurus Live at Sidney Myer Music Bowl 16 Sept 2022 Melbourne’s Even opened their 30-minute set with ‘Six Monkeys’, the first single from the eighth studio album Reverse Light Years. […]