Rose Tattoo, The Poor at the Bridge Hotel, Sydney. 19 April 2024 One of the myriad of framed gig posters on the walls of the Bridge Hotel proclaims the venue to be…
Category: Live Reviews
Frenzal Rhomb at the Manning Bar, Sydney
Frenzal Rhomb, The Meanies, Tantichrist at the Manning Bar, Sydney. 22 July, 2023 Punk institution Frenzal Rhomb are on tour in support of their 10th album right now and tonight they returned…
Downgirl at the Station Bar, Katoomba
Downgirl, Acid Amora, T-Rex Autopsy. Station Bar, Katoomba. 27 May 2023 RISING Sydney punks Downgirl were the main attraction at Katoomba’s Station Bar this evening for the third leg of a series…
The Butterfly Effect at Eatons Hill Hotel, Brisbane
The Butterfly Effect, Thornhill, Caligula’s Horse at Eatons Hill Hotel, Brendale. 7 October, 2022 Tonight is a home show for the openers and closers of the show tonight, and in early rumblings…
Cruciform at The Vanguard, Sydney
Cruciform, The Veil, Magma One, Amammoth at the Vanguard, Newtown. 15 October, 2022 The Vanguard is closing in on its twentieth year as a venue and there’s some special stuff coming up…
Private Function at the Oxford Art Factory
Private Function, The Blamers, Year 6 Disco at the Oxford Art Factory, Sydney. 3 September, 2022 On September 3 in Sydney, punky lovers of the subversive and the absurd descended upon the…
Winter Magic Revival Festival, Katoomba
Katoomba High School & Baroque Room, Katoomba. 26 – 27 August, 2022 Katoomba’s Winter Magic Festival was once one of the biggest regional festivals in New South Wales. As recently as 2018…
Monolith Festival, Sydney
Monolith Festival, Bella Vista Farm, Sydney. 20 August 2022 It has been a long time since I’ve been to a music festival. The last one was well before the virus, the (unbeknownst…
Blacken Open Air 2022
Blacken Open Air Festival, Ross River Resort 29 July – 1 August 2022 Three years on from when it could last be held, Blacken Open Air returned in 2022 at a sacred…
Dr Colossus at the Duke
Dr Colossus, Tantichrist at the Duke of Enmore, Sydney. 4 June 2022 What better way to warm up on a cold Saturday evening in Sydney than to cram into the front bar…