14 June 2016
Geelong locals The Kite Machine are a funky bunch, brimming with energy and panache and are about to set the proverbial cat amongst the pigeons with their new single, ‘Charlotte’. Following the release will be a short East coast tour of Australia that will garner new fans and give the band some road experience to take into the studio later in the year.
13 June 2016
Welcome to THTH, Forte’s premier source of all things heavy, hard, fast and metal.
13 June 2016
It’s not everyday you get to talk with a rising artist moments before they vanish from a flesh-eating, horse infested mountainside. Most people avoid ever encountering such circumstances, as The Sugarcanes’ frontwoman Lucy Wilson would’ve attested if she hadn’t just been set upon by crazed hippies in the woods and turned into a stew (it’s a busy mountain). With the band’s album launch fast approaching, it leaves the fate of The Sugarcanes slightly ambiguous, but happily there is also a measure of fantasy to Wilson’s fortunes.
12 June 2016
May has generally been pretty pleasant weather-wise in the Rat, and people have been out and about making the most of it before chipping ice off the windscreen becomes a morning ritual.
12 June 2016
You know that moment where the rain starts across a lake, and the ripples seem to increase with every droplet? A massive storm is brewing and it seems ever so peaceful. The Stillness, by Wellington-based songwriter and music producer Pacific Heights (aka Devin Abrams) encompasses this is musical form.
12 June 2016
Having just released their second EP, Untethered, and about to embark upon a five state, 11-date tour, Halcyon Drive are a group of busy lads. I was lucky enough to catch up with Max Pamieta from the band and chat about the recording process behind the EP, song-writing techniques and Untethered’s artwork.
11 June 2016
Welcome to the last ever installment of this column – it’s been a pretty cool five year stretch, and I know some of you have been reading since the very beginning. So thank you from the bottom of my cold, black heart. *heart isn’t actually cold and black, it’s an expression!
11 June 2016
Local lads The Run have just come home after a whirlwind trip to Germany to compete in the Global Battle of the Bands. Relatively new on the scene it was a massive step for the band, and listening to their newest EP, it actually becomes pretty clear the talent the trio have.
10 June 2016
It seems to be that everywhere you look, the media is always there. It’s funny to think about how immediate news is in 2016. From your smartphone to your Apple watch and your iPad to your app refreshes, it’s no secret old media is on the decline.
10 June 2016
Hello again, and welcome to yet another edition of Pulp! Hope you’re all doing well, and that you’re surviving the wintery chill – I’ve been spending most of my days huddled in a blanket fort to fend off the cold during swotvac.
10 June 2016
Hollywood’s Man of 10,000 voices is set to turn to Australia during July and August, for his most extensive touring schedule of our shores to date.
10 June 2016
“It changed my life more than anything else,” David Giuntoli says of landing the lead role on the supernatural series Grimm.
10 June 2016
If you can imagine managing and playing guitar in one of Australia’s biggest bands, being out on the road for nine months of the year, living on the other side of the world from your friends and family, and raising a little human being, all at the same time, you may begin to understand a day in the life of Thy Art Is Murder’s Andy Marsh – and my surprise when I found him cheery and bright before his first cup of coffee. “It’s not too early,” he assures me. “It’s about 7:30 in the morning. I’ve got a nine month old, so sleep is a rarity!”
10 June 2016
After living a life full of ice skating, singing and acting her way up the ranks to soon leave her home in Auckland for LA, actress Rose McIver has swapped it all for a character much less alive than her own experiences. In iZombie, McIver plays the med student who soon finds herself infected with the zombie virus and, well, dead.
9 June 2016
Ahead of this year’s National Celtic Festival, I was lucky enough to catch up with Australian playwright, actor and poet Felix Nobis, who will be performing his acclaimed one man show Once Upon a Barstool. He told me that it was commissioned by the Irish Arts Council.
9 June 2016
Each year one of the favourite events on the Forte calendar and in regional Victoria is the Arockalypse event put on by The Loft. With more than 30 bands descending on Warrnambool over the Queen’s Birthday weekend it’s an event any rock-loving gig-goer should have tickets to.
9 June 2016
We’re heading into mid winter, and there has to be a damn good reason for getting up off the sofa and venturing out into the black cold night. Well, one reason would be Marco Goldsmith.
9 June 2016
When it was announced that 28 Days and Area-7 would be doing a run of dual-headliners up the east coast throughout June and July, Forte grabbed the chance to speak with two founding members of the veteran Aussie bands. As it turns out, it was also a chance for two great mates to catch up on old times.
9 June 2016
Running from July 1-24, the event showcases some of the best the town has to offer while creating a number of specialty events and fun activities that pair food with something unusual.
9 June 2016
Tasmania’s Luca Brasi have gradually revealed a bigger sound in recent years, and their latest offering, last month’s If This Is All We’re Going To Be,has already secured the hard working quartet’s upward trajectory.
8 June 2016
“There’s just an indescribable feeling when you strike an A Major chord on a Gibson SG that really transports you to another place. I felt it when I got my hands on my first one at 14 years old and I, still to this day, get it when I hit the stage,” Matt Harrison, or Harri as he’s better known, from Palace of the King tells me.
8 June 2016
As well as dishing up delicious coffee and home made sweets, the Chapel on Little Ryrie cafe also puts a focus on giving emerging and young musicians the chance to perform in front of a large crowd.
5 June 2016
I love vocal harmonies, they give me a real sense of soothing which would be quite a handy way to feel while in such isolation.
4 June 2016
Cassey Ho is known for her bubbly, excitable nature as she helps her ‘POPsters’ with her various exercise regimes.
