Courtney Ward’s ‘Xanadu’ exhibition launches at Little Creatures tonight
11 January 2017
Local artist Courtney Ward’s new exhibition ‘Xanadu’ launches tonight at Little Creatures Brewery in Geelong.
11 January 2017
Local artist Courtney Ward’s new exhibition ‘Xanadu’ launches tonight at Little Creatures Brewery in Geelong.
11 January 2017
St Kilda Festival’s long awaited lineup has finally been announced, and this year it’s set to be a doozy.
11 January 2017
To celebrate 25 years of The Waifs, the band are gearing up for a huge national tour.
9 January 2017
It’s The Stones as bluesmen that first reeled me in. This ‘accidental’ recording of covers is the stuff of fans’ dreams and a cheat-sheet for students of the mainly Chicago-style. Over time, they’ve punctuated Rock’n’Roll with a banquet of influences: soul covers (‘Ain’t Too Proud To Beg)’, reggae (‘Cherry Oh Baby’), country (‘Far Away Eyes’) and disco (‘Miss You’).
9 January 2017
It’s time to start packing that picnic basket of yours, as So Frenchy So Chic returns for another year this weekend and the set times are out.
7 January 2017
If the opener ‘Favourite Star’ doesn’t entice you to get your ears around this EP, then nothing will. Sounding like times of getting your chops around a Frosty Fruit on a hot summers day, Auchenflower by Brisbane artist Alex L’Estrange is a wild psychedelic trip down the rabbit hole that will remind you of Deep Sea Arcade or even The Beatles through their Revolver period.
6 January 2017
The Bendigo Blues and Roots Festival has set up a GoFundMe page ahead of their annual fundraiser
6 January 2017
The store opens right in time for summer, and what’s set to be a blistering weekend.
6 January 2017
One of Australia’s premier blues guitarists, the prolific Fiona Boyes brings the goods again with 16 tracks of mostly originals. Recorded in California, it bears the idiosyncratic stamp of award-winning engineer ‘Professor’ Keith O. Johnson.
6 January 2017
On Sunday, January 22, Ballarat are playing host to the second instalment of ‘Summer Sundays’. So we’ve compiled your schedule of things to do with 24 hours in Ballarat – you’re welcome!
6 January 2017
The event is being organised by local Justyn Green in collaboration with Headspace.
5 January 2017
Said to the first and last time the festival is set to run.
5 January 2017
Connecting Song is the newest music mentorship program for emerging musicians in the Geelong region to further their skills. The project is part of the bi-annual Mountain to Mouth event and was made possible after being successful in receiving a grant of $11,000 from Creative Victoria’s Music Works grant program.
5 January 2017
In a bid to find the best street performers of Geelong, the Best Busker Competition was created. Uniting all of those with a taste for the stage, Forté chat to the organiser Steve Thew.
4 January 2017
Geelong Performing Arts Centre (GPAC) has unveiled it’s 2017 Deakin University Season, featuring a range of nine local and international works from a variety of major companies and small and medium independent producers, also featuring some of Australia’s most loved performers.
3 January 2017
‘I stand in the light I’ve cast and turn away from any lack of love’ John Legend reveals on his fifth studio album Darkness and Light. As the title would suggest, this album is full of various points of light and shade that work in creating a whole journey that is sometimes lacking in a time of being able to cherry pick singles off Digital outlets.
2 January 2017
While everyone’s making New Year’s resolutions, here are a few ideas and places for you to actually see them through.
2 January 2017
Craft beer will be a hot topic in February when Geelong celebrates the return of the Great Australian Beer Festival. Back for its fifth year, the Geelong Racecourse will be filled with an abundance of pop up bars, as local and state-wide breweries showcase hundreds of different brews and styles of beer and cider – enough to please any taste bud.
1 January 2017
The soul singer-songwriter from the depths of New Zealand, Hollie Smith has been making music for more than 20 years, and she is still as fresh, melodic and captivating as ever.
1 January 2017
If you have ever been to Meredith Music Festival, you will know that the Friday is one of the longest days you will ever experience. After setting up camp by 8am, you are left with a whole eight hours with nothing to do but drink beers and gradually ease into the stress free mindset of the festival. That is until 4pm when the music starts and you head down to the amphitheatre to be greeted by 10,000 happy faces.
31 December 2016
Here are a few ways for you to bring in 2017 around the region.
31 December 2016
It comes with sad news that last night following DMAs set at Falls Festival in Lorne more than 50 festival goers were injured in a crowd “stampede”.
30 December 2016
Female trio Hey Mammoth are the acoustic, folk band boasting edgy harmonies and inspired lyrics. Forté chat with Rosey, Matilda and Cam ahead of the new year!
29 December 2016
Wood, flame, and stone – the key ingredients of a great pizza. At The Forge Pizzeria, owners and brothers, Chris and Tim Matthews, liken the art of working a wood-fired pizza oven to a blacksmith working the forge – a hearth used to soften metals in the workshop. In 2010, inspired by the legacy of their grandfather who was a well-known blacksmith in the local area, the guys opened The Forge Pizzeria.
