Month: July 2019

Snap Scene

Snap Scene: Hextape at the Curtin, Carlton 6th July 2019

July 11, 2019 Mandy Hall
Hextape is sound artist/activist Bridget Chappell. She is the founder and coordinator of Sound School, an award-winning organisation upskilling and celebrating marginalised voices in electronic music. She produces hardstyle dance music as Hextape, organises raves in Melbourne’s subterranean spaces, and studies classical cello at Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, sometimes combining these pursuits in funny mixed bill squat shows. Works include “Undertow” for Melbourne Knowledge Week, and her album “2 Fast 2 Furious” on Factoid.

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Snap Scene

Snap Scene: Raven, The Croxton, Melbourne 29th June 2019

July 9, 2019 Paul Miles
Influential English heavy metal band Raven performed at The Croxton in Melbourne on Saturday 29 June 2019 on their first-ever tour of Australia. Raven was formed during 1974 in Newcastle Upon Tyne in north-east England by John Gallagher (bass and lead vocals), and his brother Mark Gallagher (guitar and backing vocals), and they have had Joe Hasselvander (drums and backing vocals) with them since 1987.

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Star Scene

Star Scene Kram – Abbey Rd

July 9, 2019 Mandy Hall
In celebration of Abbey Road’s 50th anniversary, some of Australia’s most respected musicians and members of iconic groups, collectively known as ARC — Kram (SPIDERBAIT), Mark Wilson (JET), Davey Lane (YOU AM I) and Darren Middleton (POWDERFINGER) — all self-confessed Beatles tragics, will faithfully and lovingly bring The Beatles’ most audacious creation to life on stage, performing Abbey Road in full, from start to finish, followed by a second set comprising of a selection of hits spanning the breadth of The Beatles’ career and catalogue.

Abbey Road – The Beatles’ swansong and their crowning achievement as a recording group – is a stately, majestic, playful yet fiercely rocking masterpiece of pop music, regarded as one of the greatest records of all time.

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Snap Scene

Snap Scene: Tank, The Croxton, Melbourne 29th June 2019

July 8, 2019 Paul Miles
NWOBHM band Tank performed at The Croxton in Melbourne on Saturday 29 June 2019 to end their first tour of Australia. This version of Tank features guitarists Mick Tucker and Cliff Evans (who joined the band in ’83 & ’84 respectively), along with drummer Bobby Schottkowski, bassist Randy van der Elsen, and Pink Cream 69 singer David Readman.

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