Review Scene

There is always something warm and inviting about walking into the Palais Theatre on a cold winter’s night. The plush red ...
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Words Fail is the third solo album to be released by Melbourne guitarist Shannon Bourne. While usually known for being ...
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How do we create meaning from experience but by comparing comparing polar opposites? To see light we need darkness, to ...
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It's a long flight from Boise Idaho to Melbourne but American singer songwriter Eilen Jewell has made the journey twice ...
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Many a year ago Royal Blood only existed in the veins of royals, and then in 2013 on the way ...
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As the lights dim, an excited punter screams out in the most ocker vernacular, "Smash it Deano" to chuckles and ...
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It's been a long time since I've seen Beck live in Australia. I remember first seeing him play solo acoustic ...
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Okay, so looking up Gogol in a dictionary is an absolute mind-fuck. We all know the meaning of Bordello but ...
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Sadly, many of the grungy pubs and music venues of yore have been gentrified or pulled down. The Curtin is ...
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David Duchovny has accomplished quite a lot in his 57 or so years on the planet - actor, writer, director, ...
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There's nothing like seeing a classic rock band and finding out that they're still at the top of their game ...
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American Idiot doesn't seem to quite know where it stands. Not quite Rock Opera, not quite Musical Theatre. The cast ...
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The atmosphere electric, the crowd buzzing with a deafening quivering ambience waiting for the undeniably best harmonising vocal group, consisting ...
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Some rock gods succumb to the ravages of time and indulgence, some lose their relevance, and others, like the inimitable ...
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​​​​​​​You know a show is going to be something special when the star of the show gets a standing ovation ...
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Punk is not an anachronistic genre. With its raw, unadulterated sounds and lyrics telling of corruption, inequity, war, disillusion, power ...
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Perhaps it's totally wrong to describe the Red Hot Summer tour as a snowball, picking up more snow and other ...
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It's clear from the thick British accents in the crowd that there is a huge contingent of expats packed into ...
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Nothing says Australian summer more than an outdoor concert held at Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens with mozzies a flutter, an ...
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The weather was not looking good as I drove towards Rochford Estate nestled in the heart of the Yarra Valley ...
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Geelong has an interesting culture when it comes to rock music. Having spent quite a good percentage of my life ...
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Australian rock band Killing Heidi played the Village Green Hotel in the outer Melbourne suburb of Mulgrave on Saturday 21 ...
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On February 9th 2016, Stephin Merritt, the man who is The Magnetic Fields, sat down and wrote a song. The ...
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Margaret Court Arena October 7, 2017 Alison Moyet began "The Other Tour" with the poetic April 10th- an apt introduction ...
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It's rare to see a founding member of an iconic post punk band performing original songs and a set devoid ...
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Today we're remembering the legend that was Tom Petty. Here are some thoughts from some of our What's My Scene ...
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Music and fashion were the passions at The National Gallery of Victoria last Friday night. The fashion was courtesy of ...
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An idea, a vision, a belief and a passion created and founded the first Pop-Up Globe in Auckland in 2015 ...
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Genuine kindness. Two words that sat in mind throughout the whole of Vera Blue’s show at 170 Russell on the ...
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Review By Maria Papadontas Sweet Dreams by Annie Lennox plays in the background, and the crowd, at The Plenary, Melbourne Convention ...
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