Review Scene: Masters Apprentices 65, Corner Hotel, Friday 1st September 2017
Masters Apprentices 65: life in the old dog. Part of the original Adelaide line-up of the Masters Apprentices patched up ...
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Literary Scene: Book Review: The Devil Won’t Take Charity – Kim Volkman 2017
HEAVY METAL: IT’S LOUD, IT’S UGLY, IT WON’T GO AWAY. I guess if I wanted critical acclaim I’d have picked ...
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Review Scene: Pussy Riot Theatre – Riot Days, SUPERSENSE, Arts Centre Melbourne – Saturday 19th August 2017
Supersense was metamorphic. The contemporary performing arts festival, created and presented by Arts Centre Melbourne in association with curator and ...
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Review Scene: The 2017 Melbourne Guitar Show, 5th & 6th August 2017
Arriving at Caulfield Race track on a rainy Melbourne day amongst a tide of umbrellas and rain coats. On entering ...
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Review Scene: Catfish and the Bottlemen, Festival Hall – 21st July 2017
British rock band Catfish and the Bottlemen captivated crowds on Friday the 21st of July at famous Melbourne venue, Festival ...
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Review Scene: America & Russell Morris, Hamer Hall – Wednesday 26th July
Having formed as an acoustic trio together with the late Dan Peek in the U.K. back in 1969, the founding ...
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Review Scene: Mark Seymour and The Undertow, Athenaum Theatre – 21st July 2017
The theme of Mark Seymour's current tour is all about retrospection. Based on his recent release RollBack the Stone 1986-2016, ...
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Review Scene: Music Wars, the sound of the underground: the untold story of Central Station Records, by Rell Hannah and Peter Coombes July 3rd 2017
It seems to be the right time to be reading and writing about ‘Music Wars, the sound of the underground: ...
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Review Scene: Alison Moyet: Other
Listening to the talent that is Alison Moyet takes me back to the 1980s and possibly the biggest vocal talent ...
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Review Scene: Radio Birdman, Died Pretty, Kim Salmon – Croxton Park Hotel Melbourne, Friday 30th June
There has been a big run of 20th anniversary release tours and so called nostalgia acts doing the rounds for ...
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Review Scene: An Evening with Jimmy Webb, Melbourne Recital Centre – 27th June 2017
Jimmy Webb is a multi Grammy award winning singer-songwriter. His songs have been performed by some of the greatest voices ...
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Review Scene: The APIA Good Times Tour – Mental As Anything, Black Sorrows, Colin Hay & Deborah Conway, Hamer Hall – 26th May 2017
Deborah Conway & Willie Zygier opened the show, with members of the Black Sorrows as their backing band (John McCall ...
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Review Scene: Charlie Marshall and the Curious Minds – Sublime
Upon first listen to Sublime, the new album by Charlie Marshall and his latest band The Curious Minds, two things ...
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Review Scene: Living Colour – 170 Russell St, Melbourne, 12th May 2017
Every so often the music gods bestow upon us a band so good it defies belief and makes the toughest ...
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Review Scene: Gemma Ray, Northcote Social Club, 27th April 2017
Arriving early to the always charming and intimate Northcote Social Club, the crowd was greeted with a stunning and evocative ...
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Review Scene: The Tea Party with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Hamer Hall, Melbourne – 28th April 2017
A lot has happened between the time of the intimate gig the newly reformed band The Tea Party played at ...
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Music Scene: Bluesfest 2017 wrap up
Our coverage of the various Bluesfest sideshows that have been in town in the last fortnight: Santana & Doobie Brothers review ...
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Review Scene: Vintage Trouble – 170 Russell St, April 9th 2017
Just how people respond to a band and its music depends a lot on the reason or reasons why that ...
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Review Scene: Ian Anderson’s Jethro Tull, Hamer Hall – 13th April 2017
Arriving at Hamer Hall in plenty of time I was able to watch people arrive and I'm guessing from the ...
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Review Scene: Santana and the Doobie Brothers, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne – 11th April 2017
The Doobies were musically excellent and presented what could be, for them, a potentially boring and repetitive repertoire with enthusiasm ...
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Review Scene: Cyndi Lauper & Blondie, A Day on the Green – Rochford Winery, 8th April 2017
This lineup intrigued me from the outset. Blondie and Cyndi Lauper were billed as double headline acts for this tour ...
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Review Scene: Tash Sultana, 170 Russell – 29th March 2017
Crowds swarmed with high spirits to see Melbourne’s own Tash Sultana play at 170 Russell on Wednesday night. The one-woman ...
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Review Scene: Groundbreaking Fashion: 100 Iconic Moments by Jane Rocca
Book Review By Christina Heristanidis GROUNDBREAKING FASHION 100 ICONIC MOMENTS By Jane Rocca Illustrations by Juliet Sulejmani There is a ...
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Review Scene: Dixie Chicks, Rod Laver Arena, 1st April 2017
Every seat was taken at the behemoth that is Rod Laver Arena; the majority of punters female and a decent ...
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Review Scene: Spoon, Mike Noga, The Croxton Bandroom – 25th March, 2017
Mike Noga is rousing the punters with material from his new, dark, psychedelic concept album King, " about a guy ...
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Review Scene: Kingswood, WAAX, Batz, 170 Russell, Melbourne – 24th March 2017
Local Melbourne 5 piece indie rockers Batz are powering through their set, lead singer Christina Auby pulling out all the ...
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Review Scene: Violent Femmes – Hamer Hall, March 16th 2017
The admittance of a folk punk band into Hamer Hall probably best illustrates just how gentrified our once rebellious bands ...
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Review Scene: Martha Wainwright, Melbourne Zoo Twilights – Friday March 10th 2017
Melbourne turned on a perfect Autumn evening for this great double bill of Martha Wainwright and her opening act, New ...
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Review Scene: Teenage Fanclub – The Corner Hotel, 11th March 2017
Saturday night, a warm autumnal eve, on a long weekend and the punters are wired in anticipation of the sold ...
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Review Scene: Kurt Vile & Mick Turner, Zoo Twilights, Melbourne – 4th March 2017
Mick Turner opens the account with his unique melodic guitar attack, he is able to generate beautiful pensive chords with ...
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